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Word: afforded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whites who can't afford to leave are doing their best to get some money out for the time when they might have to go. Those who are staying are buying guns and crossing their fingers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Life in South Africa: An Outsider Goes Inside | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

...only reason I've stuck with it all these years is that I like football," Cavileer says. "They couldn't afford to pay me what I give them...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Statistician Bob Cavileer | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

...both blacks and whites are getting ready for the confrontation. As Zimbabwe and Namibia are going, so will South Africa. Those whites who can do so are leaving; doctors and computer programmers, who have easily saleable skills, are said to be leaving in droves, while whites who can't afford to leave yet are doing their best to get some money out (illegally), for the time when they might have to go. Those who are staying are buying guns and crossing their fingers. I am sympathetic: if the Native Americans took over Boston, where would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Life in South Africa: An Outsider Goes Inside | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

...true victim of the publications race, many argue, is the undergraduate. Junior faculty cannot afford to devote too much time to teaching, because every hour spent teaching is an hour lost to research. And despite pronouncements that tenure appointments will take teaching into account, junior faculty know any effort they put into teaching must be for its intrinsic rewards, for it will not sway tenure decisions. "Administrators just pay teaching lip-service--publications count ten times as much, and it effects undergraduate education. Harvard students are neglected students, talented, interesting people who often have never talked to a member...

Author: By Susand D. Chira, | Title: Standing Room Only | 11/16/1978 | See Source »

...fast way to make money and it's the type of job you can always find." Fred and Harriet Hoffman, who once employed servants of their own, turned to domestic work when Fred's antique business faltered. At $10 an hour, they make enough to afford a $50,000 Fort Lauderdale town-house-one very similar to those they clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Upstairs, Downstairs Revisited | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

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