Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many legislators argue that McCarney's referendums have cut back progressive programs, like state-supported kindergartens, but McCarney remains unshaken. People, he says, "can't afford to pay more taxes. If something isn't done, it's going to destroy the home, and eventually it's going to destroy America...
...some athletes, payoffs are the primary means of supporting themselves. Says one former Olympian: "Worldclass athletes would not be world-class athletes without taking money. They would never be able to afford the proper training and diet." Unlike Communist countries and many Third World nations-where athletes are virtual wards of the state-American and Western European track and field stars receive no direct support beyond their college years. Says Ted Haydon, University of Chicago Track Club coach: "U.S. athletes are pretty much destitute, dependent on handouts from track-shoe companies. They think it's a great thing...
...past three years have been lean and mean for many on the Street, Howard in that time has taken home millions. His secret: "I'm concerned more with the market's perception of a stock than with the reality of the stock itself. I can't afford to buy a stock today because I think it's going to have great earnings in 1982. I buy on the basis of what other people are going to think of that stock in six months...
...would have trusted Marc Howard to handle a $2 bet? A college dropout who had held 25 different jobs between 1962 and 1969, he started Howard Associates on begged and borrowed money in a one-bedroom apartment in Flatbush. Not until 1973 did he feel that he could afford a downtown office and staff. He is behind his desk by 8 o'clock most mornings, burrowing through 4-ft. piles of research reports. "I've been out for lunch once in the last five years," he laments...
...business callers sometimes get frustrated trying to reach someone on the phone on a Friday afternoon. Other four-day companies have found that workers tend to use their longer weekends to moonlight on second jobs, and thus show up exhausted when they return on Mondays. Many companies simply cannot afford the long weekend because federal law requires any firm with more than $10,000 in Government business to pay overtime to employees who work more than eight hours...