Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kingman Brewster, 57, president of Yale University, to Great Britain. A confirmed Anglophile who vacations in England, Brewster has one apparent drawback: insufficient wealth. The appointment to the Court of St. James's has traditionally gone to those who could afford to supplement the U.S. embassy's presumably meager budget (currently $49,500) for entertainment and related expenses. However, Carter aides have vowed that personal wealth will not be an ambassadorial requirement in even the poshest post...
...character of the thieving Pierre. And maybe bourgeois life in general. With the idea that "an individual is always more complex than he appears," Goretta adapted a quaint newspaper clipping about a furniture maker who starts robbing banks, post offices, and train stations because he can't afford to pay his employees (devoted to wood, he's being beaten in the market by the manufacturers of plastics) into a film that is more complex than its unostentatious style would indicate. Beneath the country picnics, the tender-funny lovemaking, the man who robs a bank with a bandage on his nose...
...sensed, and as many Tunisian intellectuals complained, the people seem to be becoming increasingly materialistic. Those who can afford it hold lavish weddings at hotels like the Tunis Hilton, and ride Peugeots and Mercedes. Men with more modest resources practice other forms of conspicuous consumption, like wearing overpriced French clothes, usually unspeakably tight bell-bottoms and even tighter, half-buttoned shirts...
...upland city of Manizales, coffee capital of Colombia, new-car sales are booming, and supermarkets stock imported pâté de foie gras. In the Mexican highlands, dirt-poor Indian farmers eat meat with their rice and beans. In Guatemala, small planters who 18 months ago could barely afford bicycles splurge on motorcycles, TV sets and modern farm equipment. "I now own a Datsun truck, and my son is studying engineering," says one. "Enough of eating crud with the chickens...
...coffee revenues have been accompanied by a riptide of 26% inflation. There, the oligarchic semiofficial Fedecafe sets coffee policies and controls 42% of the trade, while 28 private exporting companies dominate the rest of the market in high-quality beans. The nation's 130,000 backlot growers cannot afford soaring prices for fertilizers, fungicides and equipment. Except in Central America and Mexico, where the coffee pickers are in short supply, the lot of the hired worker has not improved. In Brazil, laborers known as bóias frias (literal translation: cold grub) still get less than...