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...know how society decides what things cost. I have no idea why dvd players are so cheap and house paint costs so much. Salt used to be worth a lot of money. So did Amazon. com. It all has to do with an invisible hand, which sounds like something I was pretty sure I was going to get away with when I went to see a movie with Jackie Tudor in eighth grade but actually explains capitalism. My failure with Jackie is best explained by the foolish choice of Beverly Hills Cop II instead of Dirty Dancing...
...know how society decides what things cost. I have no idea why DVD players are so cheap and house paint costs so much. Salt used to be worth a lot of money. So did Amazon.com It all has to do with an invisible hand, which sounds like something I was pretty sure I was going to get away with when I went to see a movie with Jackie Tudor in eighth grade but actually explains capitalism. My failure with Jackie is best explained by the foolish choice of Beverly Hills Cop II instead of Dirty Dancing...
...With all that money at stake, no wonder the selection process has a questionable past. In 1998 evidence surfaced to indicate what many Olympic insiders have been whispering for years: that bid cities like Salt Lake City, host of the 2002 winter games, had showered I.O.C. members with gifts-fully paid shopping trips for spouses, college scholarships for children and even cash in envelopes for members. Chastened by the scandals, the I.O.C., long a notoriously secretive body, publicly scrubbed itself clean. Members were expelled. New regulations were drafted forbidding members from visiting candidate cities, imposing a limit on gifts...
While members of the International Olympic Committee are not going hungry, the days of their being profligately romanced by cities vying for the Games are gone. Since the Salt Lake City bribery scandals, the front runners for the 2008 games--Beijing, Toronto and Paris--are offering only subtle solicitations...
...THEN Salt Lake City brought many IOC officials and their families to Utah. Some needed five trips to inspect facilities fully...