Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regularly costs $34,000, for instance, can be assembled from a kit for $20,000. For the more ambitious, there are plans that sell for as little as $135. Says Paul Poberezny, president and founder of the EAA: "The average person would like to fly but can't afford a plane. A home-built plane can do the same job with less materials...
Rear Guard. Kennecott broke ranks with the industry and settled quickly with the unions on what other coppermen see as more than generous terms. Kennecott could well afford the settlement. The company is sitting on a comfortable cushion of $1.2 billion in cash and securities-the proceeds of an enforced sale of Peabody Coal, which Kennecott acquired in 1968, to a consortium led by Newmont Mining. The Federal Trade Commission ruled in 1971 that Kennecott's Peabody purchase violated antitrust rules barring concentration in any given industry, arguing that the company could have entered the coal business by investing...
When he was asked at a press conference about the logic of this, the President took up John Kennedy's line. "Well," said Carter, "as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford and poor people can't." Anatole France in the last century appraised that kind of elegant fatalism: "The law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges...
...easily available are outweighed by the risks of making it too difficult or impossible to obtain. Since the only intelligent argument to be made for abortion is that it is a social necessity, fairness and logic dictate that it must be available especially to those who, wanting it, cannot afford it. To say that abortion, while legal, is immoral but that only the poor shall be saved from this immorality by a fastidious government is not only unfair but absurd...
...This principle explains the natural evolution of what DeVore and his colleague Joseph Popp have called "prostitution behavior" in higher species. A female chimp in estrus will use a sexual come-on to get more than her share of food. Even a very dominant male cannot afford to alienate the most precious of all resources-a willing female. Sociobiology also explains why, in most human societies, men are older than their mates: older men are more likely to control resources of value to a reproducing female. Males go along with the system because it is to their reproductive advantage...