Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...premium prices for their acreage. Farmers often sell out, only to wind up leasing the property back from the new, absentee owners and working for them as tenant farmers. When farm children grow up, they must sometimes seek other occupations, because land prices are so high that they cannot afford the life their parents led. Complains Vernon Conrad, vice president of California's Fresno County farm bureau: "Buying by outsiders is taking away the family-based farming communities that have helped make this country what it is." Laws preventing or limiting foreign ownership of land have been enacted...
...principal champion of free-market capitalism. For all its problems, the U.S. remains a land where foreigners by the millions still see immense potential, plentiful resources, an unshakable faith in the sanctity of private property, and a trust in the rewards of initiative. Now that they are able to afford it, there is nothing that should stop them from trying to invest in-and enhance -America's riches...
...joke when Weidenbaum brings forth sheaves of records of dozens of foundries-in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Kentucky-that had to close because they could not afford to meet requirements of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. He collects reports of hundreds of small companies that have abandoned pension plans because they could not comply with the expensive requirements of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), "and so the worker winds up with no pension...
...over more dirty little wars, and his superiors saw the change and decided to stagnate his career. There are indications that he'd've liked it just as well if the U.S. had gone all out to win--he thought it was "do-able," just that Kissinger couldn't afford another Vietnam. There's a certain wistfulness in his tone when he writes what he could have done with a "Puff the Magic Dragon" in Angola--"completely broken the MPLA." A "Puff" was a C-47 transport plane...
...things happened. First, events changed the agenda: the predominant subjects became "We can say, then, that he's Viet Nam, law and order, race, radicalism. Second, largely hidden by those more dramatic issues, serious doubts developed about whether the country could indefinitely afford the New Deal approach and whether it was working. In short, the majority assumptions-the faith and strategy-of decades were severely damaged if not destroyed...