Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supposed betterment." He promised that his administration would "squeeze and cut and trim" government costs, partially through a reorganization of agencies, until "we will build those things we need to make our state a better place in which to live-and we will enjoy them more, knowing we can afford them and they are paid...
...eight old masters worth some $7,000,000, including three Rembrandts (among them the widely admired A Girl at a Window). What they had not figured out was who would pay them for their night's work. The college was heavily in debt, and in no position to afford a ransom. None of the works were insured, a fact that ruled out any hope that an insurance company would pay up to recover them...
...most advertised of human conditions: hemorrhoids, or piles. Last week the Federal Trade Commission decided that some clear talk was needed not only about hemorrhoids, but about the advertising claims made by manufacturers of suppositories and ointments for their treatment. These preparations, said the FTC, "at best only afford temporary relief of minor itching . . . and some types of pain." So it ordered the companies "to stop falsely advertising them as cures...
...clustered around them in his living room at his Cambridge house, called Shady Hill, he spoke of the humanity that swelled in the lines and shading of the works. "I never finished a lecture," recalls John Walker, "without wanting to rush out and buy all the prints I could afford and drawings that I couldn...
...abortion, for example, will not be legalized and cannot be eliminated, one can wish it were better organized. A large organization could not afford to mutilate so many women. It could impose higher standards. It would have an interest in quality control and the protection of its "goodwill" that the petty abortionist is unlikely to have. As it is, the costs external to the enterprise--the costs that fall not on the abortionist but on customer or on the reputation of other abortionists--are of little concern to him and he has no incentive to minimize them. By all accounts...