Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visit but in the future as well, it will be beneficial to have the leaders of the U.S. and China frequently contact each other and exchange views. As for the significance of normalization between China and the U.S., there has been much talk about it already, but you cannot [afford to] underestimate the significance of this event. One aspect of it is the development of relations between the two countries, but what is even more important is from the point of view of global strategy...
...whole spiel was an attempt to bum a quarter. "Just think--another quarter you won't have to own."). His preaching aside, people in these times still clamor to own just about everything they can possibly imagine. Cars, homes, Cuisinarts, video-cassette recorders--and if you can't afford it, then you simply buy it on credit, borrow money, get a loan, try our EZ Payment plan, Master Charge it, put it on the tab, Leo--anything. It seems the inevitable extension of the consumer age. The old Puritan Ethic might have built this place...
...Seated there in a bright plastic secretaries room, even Collins can't beat out the system he's been enforcing. As Collins tries to work his way back up to his old status, his coldness takes on a different dimension--it's him against you, and neither party can afford to lose. Dalen manages to pull off this shift without a false note, and it's pretty impressive...
...position of the Crimean Tartars. They are a simple people without education. They could not afford to buy houses; they sleep under the open sky. They want to work in agriculture and they have tried, but they cannot work on the farms because they are not allowed. The Crimean Tartars were brought from Crimea in 1944--it was a Stalin decision. In one day in 1944 the whole population of Crimean Tartars was brought from Crimea. They were brought in railway cars to Uzbekistan. On the way half of them died. Dead people lay near those not yet dead...
Reischauer, however, said he believes Stanley is too good a professor to lose. "He's simply terrific--a great teacher--a good, solid, sound scholar. I think he's the kind of man Harvard can't afford to lose, and something should be done to keep him here," he added...