Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long awaited decision to permit the sale of nearly $3 billion worth of advanced jet aircraft to Egypt and Saudi Arabia, as well as $1.9 billion worth of planes to Israel. The Israelis protested loudly, especially about the sale to the Saudis. But neither Washington nor Jerusalem can afford to let the argument get out of hand, and so the Administration announced that Begin would visit Washington again within the next two or three weeks to talk things over...
Although the eight-year-old Community Assistance Program has previously advised groups that could not afford professional service, this will be the first time it will participate in an emergency situation, Paolini said...
...certainly be able to carry much of the load we're carrying now, and it would be more productive. We pay our share of the Canadian defense freight. It doesn't have much fallout in Quebec. We could afford to shoulder as much of the load as we're shouldering now, and if we had to, it would be a lot more stimulating, because at least we'd get the economic benefit from it. My personal opinion is that it would be completely nutty not to keep the normal, basic Western ties, including NATO...
Although princely pieces still command princely sums, the days when royal emissaries vied for a queen's collection of Leonardos in hushed auction rooms are gone. Today's collectors are apt to be middle-class?and many buy on the installment plan. Few of them can afford to furnish a room completely in one period, so they buy an Amish quilt or a mellowed English highboy to soften the lines of their contemporary apartments...
Exploiting the Arctic fields will cost billions of rubles, but the Soviets cannot afford to ignore them. Petroleum is the lifeblood of their economic plans and political schemes. Though Moscow has told its East European allies to look elsewhere for additional oil, it still supplies 80% of the area's needs, and wants to continue to do so. The dependency helps bind the otherwise restless Poles, Czechs, East Germans and Hungarians to the U.S.S.R. At home, some conservation measures have been introduced, but the Kremlin would be unwilling to risk the unrest that might come from drastic cutbacks...