Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play flashes into lucidity every now and then when Japes Emerson's Benedick and Anne Beresford Clarke's Beatrice parry each other's verbal thrusts. Clarke assumes the stage with an assurance other performers whose roles had been mangled could not afford. Her voice is not large or overpowering; instead of ringing out, it pierces and slices--but that's an effective sound for this razor-tongued heroine. Emerson's Benedick is youthful and athletic, but not terribly well-defined; Shakespeare suggests he ought to be something of an eccentric...
...Jerrold Gibson '51, director of financial aid, said yesterday one issue at the conference was the increasing administrative burdens caused by the growing number of funds and the growing number of students eligible for them. Because school budgets are tight, few schools can afford the necessary increase in administrative staff...
With more and more adults deciding to go back to school, this category of students will grow during the next decade, Kraus said. The administrators debated what amount of support is reasonable for such students and what amount the financial aid program can afford to give them...
Malaysia insists, fairly enough, that it simply cannot afford to take care of so many exiles. Beyond that, the Malaysians fear that the refugees from Viet Nam-most of whom are ethnic Chinese-would remain permanently, thereby upsetting a delicate balance between the predominant Malay community and the Chinese and Indians who make up nearly half the population. Even if all that is true, Malaysia has no right to try to solve the problems of the refugees by drowning them...
...closed for too long." Women's groups believe Weber may help them expand their already considerable gains. Even some white ethnic groups that feel left out in the scramble for economic opportunity, such as Poles, Italians, Ukrainians and Czechs, may interpret Weber as a challenge that they cannot afford to ignore. Warns Leonard Walentynowicz, executive director of the Polish-American Congress: "If America's job opportunities and money are to be parceled out to groups, we are a definable group, and we want our share...