Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allows staffers to take either Fridays or Mondays off. David Ofher, general manager of the office, sees the experiment as a reward for improved business in the Chicago branch during the past several years. Says he: "It's a large goose to morale. We can afford the risk of not everyone being here every day. People will cover for each other." In Houston, Pullman Kellogg, the big engineering company, has been on a 4½-day week since April, with the employees taking off at noon every Friday and making up for the lost production by working an extra...
...early next year. The delegates responded with a standing, 50-second ovation. They were less pleased when he declared that while successful programs would not be cut back, he had to "make some hard choices about how we spend the taxpayers' money." He added: "We can't afford to do everything." The delegates sat in silence as he vigorously defended his proposal to save fuel by imposing heavy taxes on gas-guzzling cars; the U.A.W. believes such a step would cost jobs. Said Carter: "The solution lies in using our great American ingenuity to design and produce...
...There is basically one function for which the Bursars card was originally designed," a friend of ours who ought to know tells us. "And that is to afford each student in the University the opportunity to have a positive form of identification with which to gain access to University libraries, charge books therefrom, and, if the student is on board contract, to eat in the University dining halls. That is the reason why, you will note, we have chosen to draw a formal distinction between the "Bursars cards" available at Harvard, and the "Student Identification" cards routinely available elsewhere...
...should pay the flat rate each time they show a film, but few do. "Technically, we're supposed to, but that's for rich people, and they know we're not rich," Izkowitz said. He added, "It's funny to say we're from Harvard and we can't afford to pay them...
Brown said societies risk losing money on an artistic film when everyone else shows more recent commercial films. He added that the groups can not afford to risk one weekend's earnings. Izkowitz said he has not shown "one film which could be considered bad," since he has "to watch them too." But he added, "People aren't willing to experiment, to broaden their horizons. They come to see Clockwork Orange or Dr. Strangelove, but they won't come to see an earlier Kubrick...