Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the tendency of many of its people to distrust their own currency, to put profit above patriotism and to have as their motto "In gold we trust." The crisis of the franc is basically a crisis of national confidence. Too many Frenchmen have been buying bullion and foreign money and transferring their savings to foreign countries in hopes of eluding an increase in taxes and a decrease in the franc's value. It is too easy for self-righteous Americans to condemn this behavior. Anybody who has not seen his own fortunes dissipated by recurrent invasions, inflations...
...Money tells much about a nation's character because it is so closely entwined with a nation's history, psychology and destiny. Ever since Stone Age men began bartering with furs, and the ancient Lydians introduced metal money, practically every dominant civilization has risen to power partly through its ability to create and maintain a stable, widely valued currency. If money has not always bought happiness, it has often cured ignorance and illness, supported the arts and established productive cultures...
Such a program actually saves money. Cut off from routine preventive medicine, poverty-ridden people tend to be extremely ill when they are finally compelled to go into a hospital. A sample of 54 Columbia Point families was found to have had a total of 200 hospital days in the year before the center opened. Two years later, because of better preventive care, this had dropped to 40 days-an 80% reduction. Hospitalization, at $50 to $100 a day in true costs, is the most expensive part of medical care. For these 54 families alone, the second-year saving...
...Powers (The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.) will be even more "jerky." The fact that highly seasoned producing and writing talent is at work on the show fails to moderate Capote's opinion. He insists that he will not stand for the TV version "if they give me all the money in Christendom." Since Paramount already paid for the book's movie rights, and interprets this to include TV rights as well, Capote may well lose that battle...
...Money over Matter. Not really. Truth is that while the Raiders scored their two decisive touchdowns, NBC was leading into Heidi with a six-second spot for NBC's Monday Night at the Movies, a 60-second commercial, a ten-second promotional blurb for local stations and a five-second dance by the NBC peacock-a full 81 seconds, all of them eminently cuttable. Charged the Miami Herald: "It was simply a case of money over matter." As one NBC vice president later confessed, the network had promised Timex, sponsor of Heidi, that the $850,000 special would draw...