Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration's decision to move from push to shove in the Middle East could easily have been different: a violent shouting match with the parties involved that would dash the prospects for negotiations and saddle the Administration with a highly visible foreign policy failure that it can ill afford...
Ever had an urge to cut television's Six Million Dollar Man down to size? Easy-if you can afford $395 for an unusual new product turning up in some U.S. department stores. It is a pocket television set, barely larger than a paperback book, with a 2-in. screen. The set, called the Sinclair Microvision, weighs less than 2 Ibs., functions on all frequencies in most countries and operates up to eight hours on a rechargeable battery pack...
Although Stephens says he expected that Harvard would readmit him sooner, he says, "I'm not bitter and can't afford to be bitter" about Harvard's actions...
...month stay on evictions of any elderly people whose apartments are slated for conversion, the council has skirted the issue and tried to offer an election-year appeasement to elderly voters, through a move conversion opponents consider an insult. Landlords and those who purchased condominiums because they cannot afford houses deserve some consideration, but strong action must nonetheless be taken to prevent an economically forced exodus of working people from Cambridge...
...several hundred seniors can't afford to take it quite so easy. They are beginning work on what the Government Department, for one, predicts will be the "high point of their undergraduate education"--the senior honors thesis...