Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like his father, Jeff believes in capitalism, and he feels his most important task is improving his life without stepping on people--just trying to be a decent human being. "We don't," he says, "push high-priced stuff that people can't afford...
Upon entering, an odor rose up around you and surrounds you still. It is the most delicious and fragrant and sweet-smelling of odors and one which you cannot buy, for it is nothing less than a confused compound, a farrago of a thousand smells. Even could you afford to buy the thousand bottles of perfume and eau de cologne, the bath powders, and the multiple packages of amber soap that lie in tissue-papered state, you still would not have smell, unless you could also the time, the long, bored months during which the smells gathered and deepened...
...daylight he had Iranian students followed and even killed in the U.S. and Europe. He threatened them, took away their money and passports, arranged to have them kicked out of universities and did everything, often with success, to deprive them of the protection of U.S. law. Can the Americans afford not to look into this...
...Indians say they cannot afford trap nets. They would require an initial investment of $20,000, about 20 times the cost of using a gill net. In the Chippewa view, the dispute is plain enough: it is between poor Indians who fish for a living and rich whites who fish for fun. Says Chippewa Elmer LeBlanc: "Our forefathers gave us the right to hunt and fish. I want it to be a livelihood...
...Long, the Finance Committee chairman who is the floor leader of the Senate debate, says the tax is the political cost that the energy industry must pay in order to end crude oil controls. Long, who himself has extensive oil holdings, argues further that the nation can no longer afford a witch hunt against the petroleum companies. Last week he told a cheering Manhattan meeting of energy producers: "Those who defame us, curse us, abuse us and lie about us, would be in one hell of a fix without us." The Senate is expected to pass a windfall profits...