Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...felt guilty last year, but this year it would be insupportable to keep the money for ourselves," LaFarge said. The Lampoon spent most of the $100,000 profit from its Playboy Magazine parody last year on renovating the Castle...
...acquainted with the policies of commercial banks. As he explained it, the unfair deal ghetto residents constantly receive works the following way: a man who may hope to purchase a car finds that he can only do so by paying exorbitant interest to a finance company. He borrows the money, buys the car, naturally finds it impossible to keep up with the payments and within a short period of time loses both his car and the possibility of obtaining future financial credit. Then there is a real reason for commercial banks to turn him away. The cycle is vicious...
Costly projects like the ABMS and nuclear power for the Kennedy could indicate that Nixon has already decided where to spend the money now being appropriated for Vietnam after the war is over. But now he supports these programs without explaining how to pay for them...
...Interpretation of the Constitution, he argued that the great document, far from promoting the general welfare, was the reactionary work of wealthy men who in 1787 stood to profit from the creation of a strong, central and, above all, solvent government (nearly half the signers had lent the Government money). By suggesting that economic interests play a strong role in human events, Beard helped bring American history closer to the bitter realities of contemporary life. By implying that businessmen had betrayed the radical spirit of the American Revolution, he made U.S. history not a long fall from grace...
...Exley's youthful attempts to participate in the American myth. He wants to be the superhero, cheered on by adoring crowds -if not on the football field, where his father had excelled, then as a famous writer. He sees himself conquering the citadel of New York, luxuriating in money and success. The woman of his dreams has breathtaking legs, a snub nose, a Vassar girl's sophistication and the idealistic innocence of Doris Day about to be seduced by none other than Freddy Exley of Watertown...