Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hamburger in the past three months. But beef producers retort that this will only aggravate the long-run shortage by discouraging the building of new beef herds. One Georgia grocery-store manager reports on his customers' switching to cheaper meats: "They're not boycotting beef, they just can't afford...
...article on the investments of those moneybags [April 2] may interest some, but unfortunately has little relevance to most of us. Those affluent few who can afford to invest in vineyards, professional football teams or Reno condominium developments can also afford to lose tens of thousands of dollars, while the small investor can be wiped out by the merest fluctuation of the market...
...beef price freeze. Little wonder. It was President Nixon's desperation move to clamp controls on beef prices in 1973 that caused much of today's shortages and high prices. Though cattle producers' prices were frozen, their overhead costs continued to rise. Many could not afford to feed their animals and had to sell off large numbers just to stay solvent. As more beef came onto the market, prices briefly fell. But the size of the nation's herds also plummeted from 132 million cattle in 1975 to the present 110 million -and prices rebounded with...
...that about summed it up. Unfortunately, the Crimson can no longer afford "one of these days" in its nine remaining league contests--a loss in any of the nine would make the spring of '79 "one of those seasons." Soldiers Field FIRST GAME COLUMBIA AB R H BI Brown 1b 4 1 1 1 Robertson 2b 3 0 1 0 Biattman 1f 3 0 1 0 Hanewich c 3 1 1 2 Santangelo dh 4 0 0 0 Stukes c 3 1 1 0 Karpicki rf 1 0 1 0 Indof ss 2 1 0 0 Viti...
...more widely accepted Library of Congress system. But his decision was not rushed or unthinking. "Intellectually," he insists, "the old Widener system has certain advantages over the Library of Congress system." But he adds. "It had become a luxury to maintain a highly idiosyneratic system. One could no longer afford to keep it, even at Harvard...