Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ghetto areas around the country, arson is often a means of feeding drug habits. Unable to afford the tools to remove valuable brass plumbing, sinks, bathtubs and refrigerators in abandoned buildings, junkies pour inflammable liquid around the rooms, set a blaze and wait for firemen to chop up the floors, exposing the loot. Then the "mango hunters," as New York cops call them for their practice of reaping a harvest of stolen goods, move in, drag ou the fire-resistant fixtures and sell them -a bathtub is worth $25 on the open market, a wash basin $15. Some areas...
What isn't so nice is the reality that Harvard is chiefly responsible for tightening things up. A win last week over the Tigers and the Crimson could have been semi-coasting, or at least able to afford a loss. Now thwt loss is in the past; another one today would be deadly...
...Some of my players settle for intramural football because they might be premed, for instance, and can't afford to invest time playing varsity," said Mather coach Dave Richardson. But Richardson's argument doesn't merely revolve around the problem of a time commitment, an obstacle mentioned by many of the players interviewed for the Journal yesterday at Webster Field...
...Republicans, however, need not worry. The Democratic front-runner is no threat to their comfortable middle-class lives; he can't afford to be. For all their burnt-out slums and depreciating bank notes, New Yorkers are a singularly immovable lot--and no political reformer, no matter how irresistable, can do anything about it. Koch sees this; anyone who saw the agony of the last few years of John Lindsay's administration has to know it. Of course, there are the minority groups: anyone who lives in Bedford Stuyvesant or the South Bronx cannot fail to want change. But most...
...Furthermore, the committee has been forced by politics to write the bill in a way which precludes it from reaching the neediest eligible participants. Preference for funding would go to organizations with volunteer labor. Such organizations are much more prevalent in middle- and upper-income areas, where people can afford to volunteer their time. In ghetto areas, few people have time to volunteer, and few suburbanites are willing to volunteer for ghetto work. Yet ghettos are the areas where needs for the program are greatest...