Word: afforded
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...been some individual work stoppages, and it is generally assumed that a one-week strike of the black work force around Johannesburg could shatter or at least severely damage the South African economy. No such strike has happened, because black workers are afraid of reprisals and because they cannot afford a strike, living as they do mostly just above poverty. The government may well keep the lid on for many more years or even decades. As one white editor says, "Soweto riots could just become an annual event." And yet the present situation-a continuing white sense of living under...
Green could thus afford to bogey the 18th hole and still come away with the $45,000 prize for first place. His drive skipped through the bend in the fairway leading uphill to the 18th green and into the rough. He slapped his second shot into a steeply escaped bunker in front of the green and a semi-explosion shot left him 40 feet from the pin. Green bladed his second putt into the center of the cup to avoid a playoff and in so doing moved into the pantheon of golf's immortals...
Even a festival devotedly committed to the classics can afford a little sophisticated comic relief, and that is what this play provides. The Lunts won vast acclaim with The Guardsman when they opened in it in 1924, though one can scarcely imagine this somewhat fragile comedy holding its own on Broadway...
...freshmen agree with the boycott-supporters that the CRR does not afford due process to students on trial, but argue that it can best be reformed from within. As a result of their decision, four students will join the committee when it next meets...
...afford to: Author K's revenues from his memoirs are expected to reach the $5 million mark, to which his five-year contract with NBC may add another $1.5 million. Indeed, Henry the K seems to be holding down half the top jobs in the country. He has joined Chase Manhattan's board of international consultants, is booked for several "substantially paid" speaking engagements later this year, and will take a one-year appointment as professor of diplomacy at Georgetown University...