Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...King Hassan II got American weapons, his opponents, the Polisario guerrillas, might solicit more help from the Soviet Union, posing the threat of another superpower confrontation in Africa. Carter instead bought the argument of National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Defense Secretary Harold Brown that the U.S. could not afford the downfall of Hassan, a prominent friend in the Third World. An unspoken but very real consideration: coming after the overthrow of U.S.-supported autocrats in Iran and Nicaragua, the loss of Hassan would be a major embarrassment to the President's re-election campaign...
...Without rent control, we would have skyrocketing rents and many low and middle income people would not be able to afford it," Singleton says. "My platform is that rent control is here to stay," he adds...
...program's information booklet states, "The program's impartiality is based on seeking funds from affiliates who compete and conflict. No funding is so large that we cannot afford to lose...
...Third World debtor, owed $19.3 billion at the end of 1977. As John Maynard Keynes once apocryphally said, if you owe the bank 100 pounds sterling it's your problem, but if you owe the bank 100,000 pounds sterling, it's the bank's problem. Western policymakers cannot afford to neglect the needs of their bankers' debtors when formulating trade policy, or they may find themselves formulating international economic turmoil...
Bars and discos have reported little difficulty enforcing the new drinking age laws, and most of them are complying with the law, Rule added. "I don't think the 18-year-olds could afford to drink in bars anyway," he said...