Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poorer, darker people move in to a neighborhood the middle class moves out. If they can afford it, they go to Westchester, Long Island, New Jersey, Florida or California. Those who stay in Brooklyn move southward towards the Atlantic Ocean, yielding more and more of the borough's north and center to poorer blacks. As a few black families move onto a block, the remaining whites fear they will be 'overrun' and the value of their property will decline. Seeing the downhill slide of the neighborhood in the first black face that moves in, they are apt to sell their...
Sadat not only wants peace but profoundly needs it. Egypt, disastrously impoverished and overpopulated, claustrophobically crowded into the life-sustaining Nile Valley, can no longer afford to spend 28% of its national budget on military hardware to aim at Israel. Egypt is also deeply weary of fighting. In the four bloody wars against Israel (1948, 1956, 1967, 1973), Egypt, of all the Arab states, has absorbed the heaviest losses. In '67 Egypt lost 3,000 killed, v. 600 for the Syrians and 696 for the Jordanians. Today the Nile Valley nationalism always present in the Egyptian character is asserting itself...
...masses and those of a growing middle class. A low-ranking civil servant in Egypt's swollen, slow-moving bureaucracy may earn no more than $45 a month; an evening at currently fashionable Jackie's Disco in Cairo costs $60 per person. Some of the affluent Egyptians who can afford a summer home in Alexandria are uncomfortable about the disparity between their country's two nations. Says one wealthy, Harvard-educated Cairene: "I feel like a foreigner when I'm with the Egyptian lower class. When I meet my driver every day, I ask him about his family, and that...
...terms apparently are not generous enough for those who can afford to take advantage of them. Within one week the bank received 20 inquiries-from as far away as Lansing, Ill..-but no takers. One prospective depositor asked whether he could get three of the deluxe autos if he deposited $3 million. Emphatically yes, said Bank President Gerald Mclntyre. Whereupon the canny investor tried to drive a harder bargain. At week's end he was holding out for 6.5% interest and a time limit of only three years...
...given themselves a name, Microcosmos, like a rock group, and what was more interesting, they had an idea: the use of computers in games. Invited back, they brought a working model of the gadget that became Code Name: Sector. Doyle wants to make a million dollars so he can afford to write books on astronomy and invent on the side...