Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Money Game, 'Adam Smith...
Almost unnoticed, Congress quietly whacked $13.9 million from the Administration's requested funds for educational and cultural exchanges in August, in the process virtually gutting the famed Fulbright scholar program established in 1946. Fulbright money was reduced 72%, plummeting from $680,000 to $136,000 for Britain alone...
...said that no matter how repugnant the regime's politics are to the U.S., the regime will continue to receive such aid because of its strategic place in the fight against communism. Some Greeks even believe the CIA played a decisive role in planning and contributing arms and money to the revolution. America does not send arms directly to Greece but rather uses the convenient agency of NATO, which supplies Greece with 75 percent of its weapons...
They gave up touring at a time when they were being offered a million dollars a concert, when they were near to the height of their popularity. They were already rich, sure, but how many other performers turned their backs on that much money, adulation, and love...turned their backs on it because it wasn't, well, fun anymore? Fun! Don't they realize man has to sweat to earn his bread? Don't they realize that show business is a business, and that you have to get while the getting's good? Don't they know that life...
Lennon is at times completely cut off from the outside world. He is entirely silent, speaking to no one, not even his wife, for as long as three days at a time. Conversely, he can be violently generous with himself and his money, and wildly exuberant in playing with his mates, the other Beatles. In all, John displays the complexity of character, the difficult emotional life that we associate with the artist...