Word: money
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...City Council level, real estate interests decided to sponsor Proposition 1-2-3. By shifting the focus away from rent control, the industry hoped to dupe large numbers of Cambridge residents. And by turning the debate city-wide, landlords planned on capitalizing on its one advantage--access to money for a large-scale campaign...
...five respected U.S. Senators get mixed up with such an operator? In a word, money. They are obsessed by it at the rate of about $10,000 a day -- the amount it takes to fuel a Senate campaign every six years. Glenn, who was carrying a $2 million debt from his 1984 presidential bid, solicited $200,000 from Keating for a political committee he controlled. Cranston ! solicited $850,000 from Keating in 1987 and 1988 for voter-registration drives. In Cranston's tight 1986 Senate race against former Republican Congressman Ed Zschau, Keating gave the California Democratic Party...
...need to encourage entrepreneurs or long-term investors with this break (which actually would reserve few of its benefits for those charmed circles) are saying the Government can outguess the market about which investments will pay off. If a risky or long-term investment makes more sense than keeping money in a savings account, the market will reward it without any special incentives. Or at least, you'd better believe it will, if you want to call yourself a free-marketeer...
...program, run by the Eliot House Jimmy Fund, brought 25 nationally and internationally ranked skaters to Harvard to raise money for children's cancer research...
...called "that secondary social man, the lover." Rather it seems to me that the love of a single person--passionate, devoted, consuming, honoring...human--is the fuel that drives and deepens all other social passions and commitments, which connects us to the species in a way which work, career, money and our ever-bloated resumes can only hope to imitate. Und, after all, was the great connective in Freud's formula...