Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miles from either locality. Also the land had to be state owned; anticipating large new tax revenues from the booming oil fields and the trans-Alaska pipeline, Alaska has gone on a spending binge that has brought it to the edge of bankruptcy; thus the state could not afford expensive land purchases...
...longer contributing to the insurance fund for the 901,000 miners, retirees and dependents. Contributions to the fund, which had already been depleted by all the wildcat strikes, are based on production and hours worked. Many miners and their families have stopped going to a doctor because they cannot afford...
...general store, passed the potbellied, coal-burning stove and went to the back, where she opened a nervous conversation with Proprietor Virgil Huddleston. Finally, she got to the point. Her mother-in-law was coughing up blood and needed to go to the hospital, but the family could not afford to send her. Would Huddleston advance her a loan? He dug $50 out of his pocket. "As long as I've got it," he said, "I'm happy to help...
...ideological gap between Iraq and Syria, which are governed by rival branches of the socialist Baath Party, is as deep as the one between Moscow and Peking. For another, most Middle East experts believe that Assad wants a peace settlement almost as much as Sadat does and cannot afford to burn too many bridges to Egypt...
...only western nation that has taken no constructive steps to cut domestic oil consumption since the 1973 oil embargo can no longer afford to put off reform. While the energy proposal now emerging from Congress is weak in many ways, it is certainly better than nothing; the important thing now is not to let past losses stand in the way of working to see that the strongest possible energy bill is passed...