Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rhodesia's bottomed-out economy has also enticed a band of bargain hunters seeking a cheap way to live in a style they could not afford anywhere else. Despite the disruptions brought on by the war, they find Rhodesia disarmingly serene-no more troubled than other countries with rural insurgencies, including Viet Nam in the early '60s. Rhodesian products, notably the excellent $1.50 steaks, remain cheap by world standards. Houses and rich farm property are available at fire-sale prices. One foreign resident in Salisbury just paid $42,000 for a six-bedroom house on two acres, complete...
...number of governments are moving in the direction of coercion. Some have introduced legal sanctions to raise the age of marriage. A few are considering direct legal limitations on family size and sanctions to enforce them. No government really wants to resort to this. But neither can any government afford to let population pressure grow so large that social frustrations finally erupt into irrational violence and civil disintegration...
...acquire mastery over "the dark, bewildered prison house of the isolated subjective self." His life was a series of afflictions: childhood illnesses that left him half deaf and half blind, recurrent episodes of near insanity, a career at Oxford that ended after a year because he could no longer afford the tuition, marriage to a woman 20 years his senior who died a bedridden alcoholic, years of inconceivably strenuous labor on his famous Dictionary, and in old age, loneliness and poverty. But he be longed among those "great experiencing natures," Bate says, whose lives and works illustrate the resilience...
Well, Tiger punter Bill Powers did for one. Spurred on by his name and a favorable wind, Powers let sail a kick that nearly reached Dillon Field House. Seventy-four yards when totaled, the boot pinned Harvard on its own 15 on a day when the Crimson could hardly afford to be pinned anywhere...
...struggles for resources to meet human needs, therefore, must confront the new militarism of the United States nuclear industry and a military which sells more arms to developing nations than the rest of the world combined. The U.S. can no longer afford both guns and butter; we must choose between them. Foreign policy has become domestic policy. Those who propose real changes in our society, therefore, must bring these issues into every possible political arena--from the electoral campaigns and the unions to the churches and the streets. Such a movement was successful when organized against the Vietnam...