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...everyone lives in fear, of course, but the ones who don't often are consumed with resentment or ridicule for the people who do. The ones that remain are the fear brokers, who by hook or by crook (often by crook) make a buck off everyone else's terror...
They don't have to commit a crime to make a buck. They sell handguns, and safety devices, and the television ads for those safety devices (ask anyone in Dade County which company "locks Miami," and you'll get an answer quick...
...million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Economies are on a similarly modest scale. Sums that would vanish without effect in Russia could make an enormous difference here. What matters most is not whether foreign economic aid to the Middle East produces the biggest bang for the buck, but whether it brings the most peace for the penny...
Johnson said running the pro-gram through existing public service structures would save money by eliminating the need for additional administrative overhead. "My original thought was that there was too little money [budgeted]. The only way to make it truly national is to get more bang for the buck," he said...
...engage in the production of items people can use, like soap," he says. "But there is no encouragement in this country for entrepreneurs or people who have learning. Money, quick money, is the only thing that matters." For most people, there is only one way to make a fast buck: from government contracts awarded on the basis of favoritism and kickbacks. Says Femi Adefope, the American-educated owner of a travel agency in Lagos: "If you do business honestly, no one will do business with...