Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Even with the new graduated payment mortgages that allow lower monthly outlays in the first few years, many people are dangerously overextending themselves. Says Norris Allman, 27, an engineer in New Jersey: "We finally made a decision that either we buy now or we would never be able to afford...
Today, by that same standard, only 13% can afford new-home ownership and 38% of all buyers ignore that prudent rule. In recent years, the price of new housing has gone up much faster than either personal income or inflation. Consequently, many Americans have become "house poor...
...having families while the wife works full time to make ends meet. Last year almost half of all home buyers were families with two incomes. Says Patti Garmel, a Los Angeles real estate agent: "I think some people wind up looking at four walls because they can't afford to go to a movie...
When they get there, they might want to switch on the experiments left behind by the Apollo astronauts. Sending data back to earth about moonquakes, solar wind levels, and so on, they were still operating in September 1977 when it was decided that we couldn't afford to pick up the signals. So the instruments were turned off. Only a few scientists were upset; no one else cared one way or the other. Welcome to the Space...
...human toll makes the civil war even more tragic: Red Cross sources estimated that deaths could run as many as 15,000; there are about 600,000 homeless, living in overcrowded refugee centers in cities or camping out in the countryside. If a Nicaraguan can afford the airfare, he is likely to leave the country, if only to find work elsewhere. Thousands of wealthy Nicaraguans have been filtering into the U.S. on tourist visas. Many of them are living in Florida. An informal meeting of the board of one of Nicaragua's largest corporations was held in Miami. Most...