Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...begins. The Rhode Island boys said that they would schedule their races at night. This united the harness racers and dog racers lobby in Massachusetts who stood to lose money, so they thought, by having to compete against the thoroughbreds of Rhode Island at night. This combined lobby defeated the proposed daytime fall meeting of Suffolk Downs. Thus, during the fall their will be no daytime racing in this state of any sort--no dogs, no trotters, no horses...
Brigham become head of local model cities in September 1968, and helped develop its $7.7 million program which was approved by the Federal government last month. The program aims at concentrating money from different Federal agencies into one neighborhood, in Cambridge, an area just east of Central Square...
...their protection remain unclear. It does tend to hurt landlords, though clever speculators can usually find a way over, under, or around such a law, creating a black market in housing. It hampers new construction, and consequently reduces a city's potential tax base (and the amount of money it has to spend)--but the time needed for major damage to new construction is primarily guesswork. On paper, rent control laws are an added weapon for building code enforcement, but they are also a major inducement for increasing deterioation of buildings...
THIRD--RULLAMAR is only horse to have run in the money...
...indulging himself in cheap pyrotechnics. For what it's worth, a smidgen of narrative tension is supplied by a dissident passenger who knows what Sao Paolo holds and how their employers will treat them: "Your have to watch out for those gringoes ... they don't like paying money for nothing." He plans to give them the slip once they hit the city, or else "you're stuck for life." But at the film's close he too is trapped on the Hilton, and all we've learned from the story is that it's a long dusty drive from Recife...