Word: affordable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Portland, Me., where Bush won so much support with a blood-stirring campaign speech that he narrowly upset Baker in a presidential straw vote. The Tennessean had been expected to win because he had the backing of the state's popular Republican Senator William Cohen. Baker cannot afford many more such defeats if he is to build the kind of national consensus that he has so skillfully crafted in the Senate's smaller world...
...coach Joe Restic and his charges will not take the hapless Philadelphians lightly, perhaps mindful of that locale's responsibility for Breyer's Ice Cream and the U.S. Constitution. A team on its worst losing streak in 30 years cannot afford to take anyone lightly...
...compound matters, the pool of defensemen is barely ankle-deep. This thinness at the blue line may cause problems later on. "Defense is probably the spot on the team where we can't afford to have guys hurt," Carter says--Asked if defense is the big question mark, Cleary acknowledges: "I don't think there's any secret there...
...August, Sun Harvest, Inc., the nation's largest lettuce producer, and several smaller Salinas vegetable firms reached agreement with the UFW on new contracts featuring a $5 hourly wage. These settlements, Chavez says, "make a lie of industry claims growers cannot afford workers' economic proposals." The other lettuce growers, however, vowed to continue the fight...
...gentry and the middle class can live. The trend, however, is squeezing the poor. Both poor blacks and poor whites will find the pressures of living in an urban Beverly Farms--with higher property values and a more liberal social climate--too much to bear. Those that can afford to save enough will move to Quincy, Milton and the other inner suburbs; those who cannot will turn on the nearest and most vulnerable scapegoat--each other...