Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book made the point that a severe emotional disturbance was likely to be diagnosed as schizophrenia and lead to confinement in a state hospital if the patient was poor, but diagnosed as a "personality problem" and treated in the office by a private psychiatrist if the patient could afford it. It was a natural progression from that to the establishment of the Connecticut Mental Health Center in New Haven, with Dr. Redlich as director and members of his psychiatry department as staff. This has now grown to a task force of 73, counting 45 psychiatrists, 13 clinical psychologists...
Lalanne's prices are equally fantastic: $10,000 for the sheep or the housefly, $25,000 for the rhino. Among the happy few who have chosen to afford them: Designer Yves St. Laurent, who bought a rhino, and French Premier Georges Pompidou, who bought a pair of china ostriches whose beaks hold a metal board serving as a bar. And why does Lalanne spend his time creating such extravagant fancies? His answer is as good as any likely to be heard this spring: "For the most elementary reason-it amuses...
Youthful American collectors knew exactly what to do with Le Fare's exhibit when it arrived at Manhattan's Howard Wise Gallery last week. Few could afford Le Fare's larger zebra-striped mobiles or a unit of multiple-pushbutton boxes of "7 surprise movements," but they snapped up his nearly identical, spidery shadow pictures and smaller, tinkling aluminum abstractions at prices ranging from...
...loan. The arrangement is called "piggyback" financing because it avoids risky second mortgages, involves a single joint loan on each house. Brewer calls it "a virtual partnership" between lenders and manufacturers "to assure a continuous flow of money to buyers at rates and down payments they can afford...
...player came to the end of a long evening and found that his losses were more than he could afford. But on his last hand he was golden--a blue bicycle (ace to five of the same suit). He called his father long distance and described his hand. His father agreed to back him if he would promise to stop playing poker. The student ended his career as a poker player several hundred dollars ahead...