Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jack started horses in 880 races. He won 187 of these races. In 1969 Jack started horses in 1152 races. He won 256 of those races. Every year he is among the national leaders in money won, and usually he is the national leader in races...
...claiming and allowance horses in the country. Every time one of his horses goes to post it is trying for part of the purse. Should one wander North on route 93 to Rockingham Park some afternoon, he might find that a small wager on the Van Berg entries was money well-invested...
...There is a limit to the amount of money an individual can obtain from renting housing, but it is fairly high. The fact that the government allows this is evidence of its willingness to accommodate as many groups as possible--at least, in the short run. However, large property owners and shopkeepers were eliminated; one night they nationalized something like 550 bars in Havana alone...
...above the minimum level. It also becomes evident that the staff does not sit back and accept these limitations. For example, there is a large work program, where patients can get jobs ranging from housekeeping to masonry to work in a large greenhouse. The hospital saves a lot of money this way; the pay is low, but for a patient living in the hospital, five dollars a week is plenty of spending money. Furthermore, having a job within the hospital is one of the best ways to help someone readjust gradually to the life they will have when they leave...
...most telling indictments, though, are sure to come in future years. It is dubious that Americans will be able to maintain any real interest in the space program. That is not to say of course that they won't stop pumping money into it, while the more earthbound among us continue to complain that the money should be spent elsewhere. (They forget the quite fundamental point that, like smalltown high schools that spend all the money they pick up during booster drives on athletic facilities instead of curriculum reform, America will always turn to diversionary money drains rather than concentrate...