Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...require a generation or more. The entire society?business, government and ordinary citizens?will have to chip away at the problems. The alternative to progress would be more desperation, hostility, violence and disaffection within the underclass. That is something even the world's wealthiest country would find difficult to afford...
Those former stockholders who can afford it are turning to some esoteric outlets that are not conventionally thought of as investments: gems, rare stamps and coins, furniture, even whisky bottles. Max Martin, an insurance salesman in San Rafael, Calif, got out of the market in 1973 and into diamonds. Says Keith Harmer, vice president of H.R. Harmer Inc., an international stamp auction house: "Starting about five years ago, people began spending big money on stamps $20,000 to $25,000. They'd sell their stocks, but keep their bonds." One handicap to both investments: retailers can place such...
...giant companies find that "it is cheaper to buy than to build." Their own companies are flush with cash, and as they look around for expansion possibilities, they find numerous companies not much smaller than their own selling for less than asset value per share-so that they can afford to make an offer well above market price and still pick up a company relatively inexpensively...
Unfortunately, Mr. Carter's saying that "many things in life are not fair" will do little to comfort an anguished woman who knows she cannot have a child and yet can't afford an abortion...
Does anyone ever stop to think that if middle-income Americans were not so overburdened by taxes to feed, clothe, doctor and educate "needier" families, they would be able to afford to educate their own children without help from...