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Each school must match the payment within three years-by raising $2 for every $1 of philanthropy in the case of Brown and $3 for every $1 in the case of richer U.S.C. and Brandeis. The rules were familiar. The trio had played the match game before, thus joining a select circle of two-time Ford grant winners...
...both centers and stations, patients would be expected to pay if they could, either directly or through insurance. In other cases, payment would come from the usual welfare resources. Even so, the federal treasury would have to find $124 million for these networks the first year, and the bill would rise to $453 million a year within five years. This program, the commission insisted, is not socialized medicine but an answer...
Russia accepted, in principle, the oft-proposed idea of a voluntary U.N. "rescue fund," to which it could contribute without directly supporting the operations it objects to. But the U.S. still insists that the Russians cannot have a voice in the Assembly before they make at least a token payment...
...helped the yard break one production record after another. Chief thorn in his side was another ambitious young man, Navy Assistant Secretary Franklin Roosevelt, who drove such a hard bargain that he occasionally reduced Kennedy to tears, and once, when Kennedy refused to deliver two battleships to Argentina until payment was received, F.D.R. ordered the ships towed out of the yard...
While visiting Puerto Rico, a New Yorker named Jack Golden lost $12,000 shooting craps in a San Juan hotel casino. Golden signed lOUs for $9,000 and wrote a check for $3,000. Then, when he got home, he ordered his bank to stop payment. Golden assumed that it was a lovely legal welsh; gambling debts are not collectible in New York...