Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would have permitted union organizers to campaign on growers' property and would have mandated secret elections for union representation. Shidan griped that he has had to pull up seven acres of plum trees because, at $2.75 per hr. for a migrant worker's labor, he could not afford to harvest them. "The politicians should stay...
Second only to drought as a major worry, both on and off the farms, is the economy. Hamilton Cloud. 24. a black Yale graduate who earns less than $12,000 a year as a radio producer in Los Angeles, complained that he cannot afford to get married because of inflation. Said he: "I'm still getting used to the idea that things will never be cheaper than they are now." Other people in the West voice the almost universal American litany of worries: street crime, poverty and unemployment...
Tough Luck. Joseph Califano, the prospective HEW Secretary, reaffirmed his opposition to using federal funds to pay for any woman's abortion. "What you're saying is that if she is poor and can't afford a private abortion, then it's just tough luck, isn't it?" asked Oregon Republican Bob Packwood...
...shots, defleaing and worming-all of which can cost up to $100 a year without insurance. They also get prescription drugs and emergency hospital care. Medipet founder Paul E. Murray Jr. says some 13,000 pets are put to death in the U.S. each day because their owners cannot afford vet bills. Murray, who started the San Francisco program last October, hopes to extend his coverage nationwide. To ensure the program against ripoffs, pets entitled to benefits get a ten-digit number tattooed...
There is good reason for Soffen's -and NASA's-caution; the implications of discovering any form of life on Mars are so staggering that no scientist can afford to be wrong. But the ambiguities surrounding the Viking biology tests may soon be resolved. Now that Mars has re-emerged from behind the sun-which blocked transmissions between Viking and the earth for more than a month late last year-scientists have "reawakened" the sleeping laboratories and instructed them to run a new round of experiments...