Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frantic attack on General Curtis Le-May by the National Guard Association [Oct. 19] may indicate that they, as well as the U.S. taxpayer, have begun to realize that the U.S. cannot afford to subsidize such a hobby much longer in an age when jets and missiles have supplanted rifles and caissons...
...tougher side of the Eisenhower Administration, argued on a TV show that the U.S. ought to resume nuclear testing-presumably on Dec. 31, the date President Eisenhower has set as the deadline for a workable Russian agreement on test inspection. Said Rockefeller: "I think that we cannot afford to fall behind in the advanced techniques of the use of nuclear material. I think those testings could be carried on, for instance, underground, where there would be no fallout." Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, chairman of the Senate Disarmament Subcommittee, countered that the U.S. ought to extend the test suspension...
...sluggish students, some of them seniors. He ordered the faculty to crack down on marks, gave every student more work than he could handle. He established stiff entrance exams, rejected applicants below the top half of their high school classes. When stunned alumni asked how freshman-starved Northland could afford it, Salesman Turbeville hit the road...
...wrong way. Then the buyer loses the amount he paid for the option. While puts and calls are primarily used for speculating, they are also being used more to limit losses, protect paper profits, and for tax advantages. Primarily, they are for the stock market sophisticate who can afford to lose the premiums he must pay to speculate...
...varsity can ill afford to lose Fitzgerald. His inspirational performances before he was hurt in the Dartmouth race bolstered the entire squad. Winter track will be considerably less exciting if he does not return in time...