Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposed gas tax should correctly be called "The Carter Old, Poor and Workman Tax" since it will: 1) penalize the workingman dependent on the auto to and from his job, 2) hurt the poor who cannot afford new little cars, 3) restrict the old on fixed pensions, 4) increase food prices even further due to higher farming and trucking costs, and 5) make the auto manufacturers wealthy through accelerated replacement of large autos with small ones...
Neither the pessimists nor the optimists can afford to be dogmatic. Says Sheldon Lambert, manager of energy economics and forecasting for Shell: "Anyone who says he knows exactly what the reserves are or when we are going to run out of gas and oil is either naive or stupid." Areas that seem promising often turn out to be duds. U.S. companies have sunk well after well off the northwest coast of Florida in a spot where the geological characteristics seemed encouraging; they all have been dry. By contrast, oil turns up in places that looked hopeless. In the North...
...Clamshell Alliances opposed the construction of nuclear power plants in New England on the grounds that the waste product plutonium presents serious waste disposal problems, and that the environment cannot afford to run the risk of a major nuclear power plant accident that would release large quantities of radiation into the atmosphere...
This means that often the best players cannot afford to play at away matches. This places the team at a disadvantage when it plays teams that receive more generous aid, such as MIT ($250), Cornell ($600), and Rutgers...
...Christian Dior executive, is that "women are basically sick and tired of looking like men. Clothes have been so ungodly tailored." According to Designer Caulfield, the new look's popularity has a lot to do with the financial side of women's lib. "A working woman can afford to buy herself a $40 camisole, and she will reward herself with one." The look is also a symbol of today's more open sexuality, Caulfield maintains. "When a young woman gets dressed in the morning, she doesn't know where she's going to get undressed...