Word: afforded
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...million. Moreover, New York must lower taxes on industry that now discourage private investment-a phased program just getting under way. That effort should eventually pay dividends, but in the short run it cuts revenues. Although there is still fat in such areas as health care, the city cannot afford to reduce any further services like fire and police protection; to do so would encourage more middle-class citizens to leave and discourage the desired influx of private capital. To add to Koch's troubles, this spring the city must also begin renegotiating the federal revolving loan program that...
...IMPERATIVE that the Supreme Court settle the constitutionality of quotas and the consideration of race as a factor in school admissions and hiring practices. The Court can no longer afford to postpone a decision, as it did in 1975 by declaring moot the questions raised in DeFunis V. University of Washington Law School. Nor should it follow the Justice Department's recommendation and send the case back to a lower court...
...fraternity has not yet found a new building it can afford near Harvard Square. Bruce Meth '78, treasurer of SAE, said...
...development costs for the home country, and exports do keep the production lines continually operating. But Sampson only cites the age-old argument about the "deterrent" effect of weapons to toy with its absurdity. The weapons companies' claim of merely selling to those in need or able to afford an "honest price" becomes even more painfully comic when Sampson shows how former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and his successors turned a cold war military aid program into a high pressure export industry...
...Bill Lee is doing an excellent job as acting chief, so we can afford to do a thorough job," he said...