Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year for just 20 dollars? It's a deal! he says. He lays the 20 on you. You hustle back to Holyoke Center in time to pick up your new bursars car for just 10 bucks, and then it's back to Central. (This time, you can afford to take the subway.) With just ten such Bursars card turnovers each week, you'll be bringing in a cool hundred at least, and eating STEAK at the Voyagers. And you'll be doing a good turn for people who often can't afford to eat at all. If they start asking...
...crash programs will be necessary, since the new generations of arms are already in the pipeline?designed, developed and tested. The problem for the Administration will be to decide which of the new missiles, ships, tanks, artillery, helicopters and communications systems the nation needs, and how much it can afford. In addition. Brown must weigh carefully whether any of the new weapons?by the very fact that they might substantially unbalance the arms scale?will create unnecessary obstacles in reaching future SALT agreements with Moscow...
...income has been cut drastically since he took his Washington job. How he can meet the estimated $370,000 in interest payments on his various loans this year and maintain his lavish living style mystifies his friends. It may turn out, says Pattillo, that "Bert just can't afford to stay in Washington...
...Galbraith describes Keynes's lonely stand in opposition to the reparations clauses of the treaty ending World War I. Keynes, with the clanvoyance that earned him a fortune speculating on foreign currencies, foresaw precisely how Europe would try to exact more reparations from Germany than the defeated nation could afford to pay, an impossibility that would lead to Germany's depressed hyper-inflation, and to Hitler. Keynes lambasted the parties to the peace: Wilson, "the blind and deaf Don Quixote" and Lloyd George, a "goat-footed bard." In response, the English establishment ostracized Keynes, criticising him not for his economics...
They live quietly in the exclusive suburbs of River Forest and the Hamptons. There may be a ranch house in Palm Springs or a Miami condominium as well. They can afford the best of everything, but they have almost nowhere to go, few pleasant ways to pass the time. Their husbands are often away on business, or in jail, or calling on their mistresses. The wives are isolated not only by bodyguards but also by ignorance of the details of their husbands' business activities. The men's workday deeds are not discussed at dinner...