Wall Street, on the other hand, has been given large amounts of money, in usable ways, and is flourishing.
Each country has placed its own national emblem on one side of coins minted within its borders, but the money will be usable in any of the other countries.
The rationale was that the Hook had already been defaced, so why not finish the job, make a nice road along the Hudson, create more usable park land and earn money for other parks at the same time.
There may be no more than a dozen cars deigned worthy of competing for the AMBR, but for far less money, a great, usable hot rod can be completed that prompts children to run up to be near it, but still be afraid to touch it.
They were still usable, so why spend the money?
Items that could be sold for some money are like usable TVs, books or something that you could use to fix up if you are a bit of a handyman.
The idea of a public, unsecured money-transfer device usable all over the country is its own end, and this subversion of the model is just part of the process.
The winning bid, $990,000, may seem like a great deal of money for a barely usable heavy truck with just 170 horsepower, but the charm and the history that it represented clearly resonated with the Ferraristi present at the sale.
"You're getting a lot of bang for your buck," she said, "because you're basically creating a very usable room for a lot less money than if you were adding on to the house".
