Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...single unified composition, Lennon's insistent call is for everyone to come to terms with the world just as he has come to terms with himself for the pain and sorrow that he caused someone else (i.e., Cynthia Lennon). The song "You Never Give Me Your Money" is about divorce proceedings and alimony payments and the section of it that goes "I never send you my pillow/I only send you my invitation/and in the middle of the celebration/ I break down" is significantly placed just before that last chorus of "Carry that Weight" which goes "Boy you're gonna carry...
...basic unit of government in New England is the town, and commissions fit easily into the scheme of town meetings. For another, given state and federal matching funds, the local governments were able to buy open land by putting up as little as 25% of the money. No Yankee could resist such a bargain...
...colonel, Zalman Shalev, a former head of military communications, founded an electronics company that recorded $1,500,000 in sales last year. Another ex-colonel, Arieh Shachar, took over the money-losing government trucking company called Mifalei Tovala, promising to turn a profit within a year or close down the company. He replaced its ancient fleet of trucks and fired 70% of the headquarters staff, starting at the top "to show the workers that the reforms were just." Shachar also negotiated a new labor contract that increased the drivers' work hours by 15%, with no raise...
...hesitate to go to the top with his complaints. He also took it upon himself to advise the young President not only on Indian affairs but about Berlin and Viet Nam too, sounding early warnings against military intervention in Southeast Asia. Counseling and criticizing, he variously complained that "money serves as a substitute for intelligence" in American foreign policy and that complex issues are too often reduced to simple-minded win-or-lose terms. As a gadfly, he kept pointing out, too, that it is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what...
Later I asked him whether big-time movies about young people were produced to make money from people's curiosity about drugs and sex. Sure they're commercial, said Kramer. But he could not make a movie from my viewpoint, he said. He could not in honesty pretend to put forward my view of the world...