Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Money Game, 'Adam Smith...
...youthful activists on our campuses are seeing through the hypocrisy of the juxtaposition of "higher learning" and death and war research. Their attack on the expansion of the military may finally bring a review of what this country stands for. If we spent as much time and money on human injustice as we do on war preparation, the blacks might not have to use guns, and students could use the university for its intended purposes. If the taxpayers refuse to support the universities, as you suggest [May 9], then a double loss will be incurred. First, education will be stifled...
Mysteries and paradoxes in the case abounded, but one of the most puzzling aspects was Fortas' concern for what, by his standards, was a relatively small sum of money. Until he went on the bench, he grossed well over $100,000 a year; some estimates go as high as $250,000. His wife, a noted tax lawyer in his old firm of Arnold and Porter, still makes more than $100,000. They lived exceedingly well, but Fortas has also in the past freely donated his expensive time and talent to causes and people he believed in. As it happens...
...highway department. It was seized, along with Turner's four cars, four houses, his Italian restaurant in Boise and Turner himself, after state auditors last month discovered a $484,326.83 discrepancy during an annual audit. Turner is being held on 19 counts of forgery, falsifying documents and obtaining money under false pretenses. If convicted on all counts, he could get 266 years in prison...
...happen. It's too genuine, and such things do not often catch the fancy of a fashion-conscious generation, a generation which rides on fads which Madison Avenue designs for them, a generation which grooves to the music of whatever group Columbia Records' promotion department spends the most money on each month. But sometimes, I get a feeling that it could be different. Maybe the people around here are real enough and human enough to grasp the significance of this music and the lives which created it. If they could just hear it, and learn about...