Word: dollar
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...limiting political contributions to $1,000 from each donor. More immediately responsible is congressional failure so far to rescue the Federal Election Commission from its court-imposed limbo. Under the new laws, the commission was to distribute federal funds to the candidates according to a simple formula: every dollar a candidate could raise in contributions of $250 or less would be matched by the Federal Government. In January, the Supreme Court held that the commission could not constitutionally perform this function (which is reserved to the Executive Branch) as long as some of its members were appointed by Congress...
...also began pirating prints, then going to film producers and offering to take over future distribution and call off further piracy. The Mafia is in the business for the same reason as the new pornographers: voyeur sex is enormously profitable. Hardcore 8-mm. home-movie reels, which cost a dollar or two to produce, retail for $16. A peep show minimovie machine, which shows a customer about two minutes of porn for 25¢ or the full twelve-minute reel for $1.50, can gross more than $10,000 per year; most sex shops have several machines. A hard-core porno movie...
...discussions might seem less urgent than they did when Richard Nixon proposed them in 1972. Nixon was seeking a way to stop what was then a hemorrhage of dollars out of the U.S. But last week the Government reported that the 1975 U.S. "basic" balance of payments (current transactions plus long-term capital movements) showed a surplus for the first time in the 15 years these figures have been recorded. Main reason for the improvement: higher sales of U.S. goods abroad as a result of previous dollar devaluations. Still, the GATT talks are hugely important to world prosperity. The volume...
Bravo for your courage to do what is right and not have the "dollar" be your master. Mrs. Philip Levi
...course it is impossible to have a couple of $200-a-week legmen impersonated by million-dollar movie stars, their images blown up to gigantic proportions on the nation's screens, without a certain amount of inevitable idealization taking place, both of the models and their trade. But, as Ben Bradlee has observed, "the irony of Watergate is that Richard Nixon made us all famous?the people he most despised. He made us mini-household words, and in the case of Woodward and Bernstein, real folk heroes." (Well, sort of.) The moviemakers were particularly on guard against showing the "Woodstein...