Word: affords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Some people] cannot afford to live in Cambridge [any more]," Duehay says. "It's becoming more of an upper-middle class than a diverse community, and that is inevitable with the loss of rent-control...
...spending. The richest man in America has built a house that supposedly cost $60 million, which is a lot. But he surely didn't do it to show off his wealth, since there are dozens or hundreds of people you and I have never even heard of who could afford a $60 million house...
...free time in which to spend them. When Ford left the family farm at age 16 and walked eight miles to his first job in a Detroit machine shop, only 2 out of 8 Americans lived in the cities. By World War II that figure would double, and the affordable Model T was one reason for it. People flocked to Detroit for jobs, and if they worked in one of Henry's factories, they could afford one of his cars--it's a virtuous circle, and he was the ringmaster. By the time production ceased for the Model...
...first applied a full panoply of assembly-line techniques to housing construction. That insight enabled him, and the many builders who copied him, to put up houses fast and cheap. Levitt's houses were so cheap (but still reasonably sturdy) that bus drivers, music teachers and boilermakers could afford them. And the first place he offered them was Levittown, N.Y., a town that is as much an achievement of its cultural moment as Venice or Jerusalem...
...called the "new Xanadu" and bragging about it. Gates' high-tech haven would top even Hearst's epically garish San Simeon as the most grandiose castle in America. But as Hearst once quipped of his estate--which housed, among other things, a large zoo--"Pleasure is what you can afford to pay for it." And Gates is richer than Hearst ever dreamed of being, as his "tastes" reveal: an indoor pool; a 1 1/2-story trampoline room; a salmon stream; a movie theater; a miniature-golf course. Perhaps the most telling gilded lily in Gates' mansion is a system of electronic...