Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fighting Communist and a political prisoner in a state concentration camp and do not intend to collaborate with this system of justice." Even so, the probe into Alunni's recent whereabouts shed some light on the sybaritic life-style that Europe's leftist outlaws can occasionally afford. Not long before his arrest in Milan, Alunni and his paramour, Maria Zoni, had spent two blissful weeks in a $700-a-month cottage in the Calabrian resort of Tropea...
...money supply. Since inflation is primarily structural, the supply of money has little effect on prices. But it has tremendous effects on the construction industry and the housing market. When the Fed tightens money, interest rates zoom (up to 10 per cent at present), and people can't afford to borrow money to build or buy housing. Construction workers go on welfare, real estate values skyrocket, and you just get more inflation...
...South Africa." The reasons behind his answer, he says, are best explained in the Yale Corporation report, which bears a marked resemblance to Harvard's statement on the issue. But the difference between Harvard and Yale is the latter's admission that it would not be able to afford to reduce future investment income through the exclusion of portfolio choices that a boycott would seem to entail. Flink promises to send a copy of the report...
Councilor David Wylie noted that although he did not think tax-exempt institutions could afford to pay normal taxes, he "would like to see them pay more...
Paul added that the new requirement is also "undemocratic." "The only people who can afford two years of medical school abroad are those with independent means, so the law discriminates against disadvantaged students...