Word: afforded
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Linden Smith, director of undergraduate admissions at Yale, says she finds Harvard's practice of sending a full team of admissions officers to secondary schools unfeasible. "We can't afford to send a team of admissions officers up to an Exeter or an Andover," Smith said, adding, "We find it much less expensive to interview these students on campus...
...time he was 20, Byrd had saved enough to marry his high school sweetheart, Erma Ora James. Occupying two rooms of a house owned by his employers, the Byrds could not even afford an ice box; they hung half an orange crate outside a window. Four years later the couple moved to Crab Orchard, W. Va., where Byrd got a better paying job, as head butcher in a supermarket...
Many investors can ill afford these months of preparation and waiting. Resorts International has laid off 600 employees, 75% of its work force at the Chal-fonte-Haddon Hall Hotel. Some investors may be unable to keep up interest payments on their loans unless gambling gets under way soon. Lenders may withhold additional loans until the first casino -probably Resorts International's entry -has been in operation for at least six months. "And by that time," complains one investor, "Miami may have casinos." Not to mention New York's Catskills and Pennsylvania's Poconos...
...world's largest roll-up rug, a 126,85 l-sq.-ft., zippered greensward of AstroTurf that the locals fondly call Mardi Grass. Also the biggest set of TV tubes: six superscreens, each 22 ft. wide by 26 ft. high, suspended from a 75-ton gondola, which afford the farthest-out viewer in the cheapest, loftiest seat a closeup of a cheerleader or an instant replay of a football fumble...
Rowe suggested that the roots of neglect lie in "ageism," an inaccurate and prejudicial perception of old people. "Physicians cannot afford to neglect ten per cent of the population--a segment that is rapidly growing," said Rowe. "Precise data on their special needs are desparately needed...