Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soul begins at the ghettos' doorstep; while New York's operating budget has risen 150% in ten years, the cost of social-welfare services has gone up 222%. Lindsay hopes to relieve the mounting burden by changing the basic approach of public welfare services from merely dispensing cash to emphasizing vocational training and family planning...
...inner world. Not that entering this world is easy; and, oddly, it gets harder as children grow older. The blight of depersonalization sets in with the increasing inclination of teen-agers to ask for and receive plain money. Explains one Boston 17-year-old, who insists on cold cash: "If they buy it, it's always wrong...
Most of the U.S. litigation that makes news involves the triumphant righting of a wrong or the enviable winning of a large cash verdict. In fact, though, U.S. courts spend much of their time holding back a flood of questionable claims. As a result, they often seem mainly to be telling Americans what the limits of the law are-in short, who can't have what. Some current examples...
...Boston's 1950 Brinks robbery involved $2,775,395.12, but only $1,218,211.29 was in cash. The world's biggest cash robbery was Britain's 1963 Great Train Robbery...
...grant was pending in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Negroes called this action a "midnight raid on the county treasury," and the court ordered restoration of the funds. Now that the Supreme Court has refused to review the judgment, the supervisors will have to raise the cash or go to jail...