Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This new businesslike crew took a look at the allocation of University finances and decided that Harvard couldn't afford some of its labor costs. "We used to have one custodian assigned to each building. They got to know everyone, and it was very nice and very personalized, but we decided we couldn't afford it anymore. Of course workers felt life had changed for the worse, but unfortunately it's inevitable," Powers says...
...have read the Nestle view and I have heard their statements. I find that their argument is clever yet largely fallacious. Nestles, like many of the large transnational corporations, can afford millions of dollars to promote their products while appearing to adhere to newly promulgated guidelines. What are the holes in the Nestle argument? I shall deal briefly with three of these...
Question 1 will not solve the ultimate problem of property taxes: That they are regressive (that is, they aren't scaled according to income, so that elderly people on fixed incomes are increasingly driven out of their homes because they can't afford to pay the taxes). Nor will Question 1 cut property taxes, as long as localities have come to depend on property taxes to finance the essential services like police, fire protection, and schools. The real answer to the burden of property taxes will only come when the state passes a graduated income tax and uses the proceeds...
...Crimson is correct in saying that women at Harvard cannot afford to let the resources RUS offers go untapped. We realize that RUS still has a ways to go. But student participation is the key to a responsive RUS. To judge RUS on its past shortcomings can only undermine students' attempts to strengthen their organization. Jennifer Levin '80, RUS President Elizabeth Tillinghast '79, Vice-President Susan Goldstein '80, Treasurer Heather Pavlik '79, Secretary Judy Paprin '79 Representative to the Radcliffe Board of Trustees
...home, not the House. Kansas Democratic Congresswoman Martha Keys, who is married to Indiana Congressman Andrew Jacobs, has an opponent who used the slogan A MAN TO RELY ON. When Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso ran four years ago, she was confronted by her opponent's slogan CONNECTICUT CAN'T AFFORD A WOMAN GOVERNOR. Bella Abzug observes that sexism surfaces particularly quickly when voters feel a woman's style challenges traditional notions of femininity. Says she: "If I were a man, they would have said I was strong, courageous and a leader. Instead, I was called abrasive and aggressive." Washington Pollster...