Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Census Bureau report caused much Congressional concern over the access of middle-income groups to higher education. Increasing college costs seems to be "squeezing out" these groups, since they could neither afford tuition raises, nor qualify for scholarships...
...John Dinkeloo, have obviously made a hard assessment of existing cultural complexes and learned from what has been done elsewhere. There will not be any "Mussolini Modern" jokes about Denver. No extra dollars have been spent on grandiose exteriors. "Poor old Lincoln Center," says Roche. "Many arts organizations cannot afford the operating costs of large, monumental buildings...
...retirement from politics two years ago, wrote an introduction to it, and also plans a personal memoir called The Art of Collecting. Many of his finer works will end up in museums, he says, since "with prices what they are and the heavy tax laws, you can no longer afford to leave them to your heirs...
Whether all the Gutenbergs will find buyers is another matter. Like great master paintings they are thought to be a splendid investment, but usually only a very few institutions or individuals can afford one. "What can you do with the damn thing?" asked one irreverent book dealer. "These days the Arabs could buy it, but it would be easier to sell them a 10th century Koran than a 15th century Bible...
OBVIOUSLY, HOUSE productions cannot afford to spend much money on sets, but that does not excuse the lack of imaginative detail in Wyke's drawing-room. It was a clever idea to turn the Leverett House Old Library around on its axis, so to speak, converting the staircase that the audience descends into the theater into the staircase of Wyke's mansion. Beyond that, however, there is only a smallish fireplace, some dull furniture and a few half-hearted pokes at interesting knick-knacks. To convey Wyke's obsession with sophisticated games, Garry gives us a few propped-up commercial...