Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weather isn't too cold, people sit out front. If it is hot, the open air is the only air conditioning they get. And at least the street lights still burn. Indoors, electricity is scarce, and few people can afford to keep lights burning after supper...
Some Southwestern veterans also balk at selling the books, which they believe are of questionable educational value, in low-income neighborhoods where the people they are selling to may not be able to afford them...
...most American shoes make my feet hurt, and they appear to be getting more and more uncomfortable as the years go by. As a matter of fact, we need tariffs on meat and grain as well as sugar, or I, as a farmer, won't be able to afford any shoes...
Restrictions also damage the societies that can least afford economic setbacks: the developing nations...
...crisis is growing. The percentage of American families able to afford a new home has dropped from 50 to 25 per cent in the last five years. Among those who have grappled with the problem, all feel strongly that action can only come by federally-directed policy priorities and resource allocation. Low-income housing cannot be funded by cities overburdened by their share of the so-called "launch-pad" function--injecting the poor into the social and economic mainstream of society. Even federally-funded non-market housing is fiscally undesirable to cities because the residents do not contribute...