Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...followed, after successful negotiation, many more. A well-known trade magazine showed that labor violence forced 58 plants, representing 200 million's worth of capital and a half million in Social Security taxes, to close for keeps--statistics which Washington admitted it makes no effort to collect. Unions cannot afford to be divided, to hold Communistic and racketeering elements, nor to coerce the free will of their members...
...Life. In China no great moral stigma had commonly attached to graft. It was the custom of nearly every official who could to collect it. For the colossal purchases Chiang had to make, he could not afford the normal luxury of graft. To find someone he could trust to purchase war planes the Generalissimo turned at last in desperation to his own wife. She it was who pored over aircraft catalogs, dickered with hard-boiled white salesmen, and is reputed to have had several Chinese officials of her Air Ministry shot to reduce thieving...
...lacked revolutionary spirit," disapproved of both proletarian and fascist dictatorships. After four months, having "accrued enough merits to deserve to be shot by either side," he fled to France, declaring he could have no dealings with murderers "even though in our times this is a luxury that few can afford...
...himself does not indicate the means by which this understanding between the government, industrialists and labor leaders can be brought about. But others have suggested that we stop bandying glib phrases and slogans like "rugged individualism" and "that government is best which governs least"; that we can no longer afford to allow symbols like the "totalitarian state" and "Fascist regimentation" to obscure the practical imperative need for the activity of the one agency that can cushion the ruthless forces of a dynamic world
...politeness of a cinematic headwaiter. One day in 1923 he met a young woman whose skill at bridge so astounded him that he asked her to marry him. Soon Mr. Culbertson started to write about bridge as well as play it. Mrs. Culbertson gave lessons to anyone who could afford her remarkable fee of $40 an hour. Together they made about $30,000 a year...