Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have given way to smaller skirmishes waged by a hard-core group of activists, and Israel has yet to concede so much as an inch of land. Meanwhile, the world's attention has been diverted by more dramatic events elsewhere. Frustrated and embittered, many Palestinians wonder whether they can afford the price necessary to reach a compromise...
...jealous that I can't afford to go there. I'm jealous that I don't belong there. I'm jealous that foreigners of my generation are helping to fundamentally alter their societies when I can scarcely get my peers to vote. I'm jealous that a revolution partially led by students is across the Atlantic and not here...
...rewriting, in 1986, of the U.S. tax laws, which destroyed most incentives for the rich to give art away. Tax exemption through donations was the basis on which American museums grew, and now it is all but gone, with predictably catastrophic results for the future. Nor can living artists afford to give their work to U.S. museums, since all the tax relief they get from such generosity is the cost of their materials. Thus, in a historic fit of legislative folly, the Government began to starve its museums just at the moment when the art market began to paralyze them...
...asset -- say, a tractor -- from its owner and get a tax deduction for all payments of principal and interest, as long as you had no right to the asset at the end of the term. (The law, needless to say, was framed to help undercapitalized businesses that cannot afford new tractors, not financiers who want to turn a Manet into a tax loss.) Bond had the Manet from Chemical on such an operating lease and got tax write- offs on it that may have run as high as $3.5 million...
...superpowers aren't the only ones who would have to worry. Europe is no stranger to invading German armies. Just ask Poland or Czechoslovakia. Or France. Or Belgium. Even Great Britain can't afford to forget the shelling it suffered at German hands during World...