Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saratoga, 100 goes to the state, and 50 to the tracks for operating expenses and purses. The state's cut last year came to $66 million; at the tracks, $15 million was available for purses after expenses. Much of that had to be allotted to occasional (some 90 per year) high-priced stakes races to which the track contributes anywhere from $20,000 to $125,000 of the total purse. Only one horse in hundreds is of stakes caliber, and the rewards for owners of ordinary thoroughbreds-which account for 90% of all the races and an equivalent percentage...
...been raised in 20 years simply because the tracks cannot afford to; by law they are nonprofit operations, and all they do is break even. In those same 20 years, the basic cost of keeping a race horse in training has gone up from $8 per day to as much as $22 per day. In addition, every time a veterinarian makes his horse say "Aaah," the owner shells out $25; blacksmiths get $18 for putting on a pair of horseshoes, jockeys get $25 for riding-even if they finish dead last. Of New York's 2,500 thoroughbred owners...
...three lives was too routinely regarded. If the usual safety checks for an actual launch had been run on the day of the simulation, the accident probably would not have occurred. In future simulations, such checks will be run. Also, pure oxygen will not be used at 16 Ibs. per sq. in. during routine manned ground tests as it was that day: the higher pressure meant that the fire spread five times as fast as it would have in a normal atmosphere. A new quick-opening hatch is also being designed, and the surprising number of combustible items aboard-including...
Financially, the church is thriving too. The vast Mormon-owned business enterprises-ranging from Utah's largest department store to a 360,000-acre Florida cattle ranch-help produce an income that some church observers estimate at $1,000,000 per day. The exact total is a closely guarded church secret...
This second general category of student dissenters directs its protest not so much at the status quo per se, but rather at what is perceived to be a rising tide of leftist influence ("liberal orthodoxy") on the campus and in the broader society. Thus the educationally oriented tactics of the student conservatives (for example, giving away copies of William Buckley's Up From Liberalism) are aimed cheifly at counteracting the efforts of both the student leftists and the nonideological campus-issue protestors (the latter, by supporting embattled administrators...