Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter's program fair? Most Americans seem uncertain ? dubious. Many wonder whether their own sacrifice might simply be negated by the neighbor who fails to follow suit. A common complaint is that of Rita Gibson, a Boston delicatessen owner: "The guys with money will still be able to afford as much gas as they want. Only the little guys will suffer." Asks Peggy Matthews, a New York public relations executive: "Why should some poor apartment dweller sit and shiver when all the office buildings in Manhattan are shining brightly all night long?" Contends Werner Uebersax, a Catonsville (Md.) College...
That may or may not happen. But the energy crisis demonstrates once again that the U.S. no longer can afford the luxury of having the Federal Government and the business community regard one another as adversaries to be wounded at every turn...
...market as first-time house buyers. But an equally important reason for the home-buying surge is a highly paradoxical one: rocketing housing inflation that threatens to turn the old joke "If you had to buy today the house you're living in, you couldn't afford it" into grim reality. Since 1970, according to a recent joint study by Harvard University and M.I.T., the price of new houses has climbed twice as fast as family incomes. The cost of maintaining a home (insurance, heating, property taxes) has risen still more. If present trends continue, the average...
...have my students not long suspected that all these neat listings are my own ceremonial reassurances? Could it be that only the privileged can afford a life cycle? Maybe my charts, these skeptics say, are a reasonably approximate guide to the study of life, but they can also be used to deny what is obvious, namely, that many adults are defined by the very fact that the playfulness of the stages has gone out of them--and not only the poor...but also the fortunate ones who are given so much deprived of all leeway it has paralyzed them...
...least the armies are gone-no one can afford to keep those expensive, energy-gobbling monstrosities. Some soldiers in uniform and with rifles are present in almost every still functioning nation, but only the United States and the Soviet Union can maintain a few tanks, planes and ships-which they dare not move for fear of biting into limited fuel reserves...