Regarding money as a means and not as an end, Joe Kennedy forbade its discussion at the dinner table.

约瑟夫·肯尼迪把金钱当作手段而不是当作目的，因此他禁止在餐桌上谈论金钱。

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Do you sometimes see your customer as an ATM machine? A source of money at the end of a transaction?

你有没有经常把客户看作提款机，或是只盯着交易完成时的那笔钱？

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Whereas most money is properly accounted for, public money may be illicitly diverted as it flows through an intricate arrangement of corporations and contracts to end up in the wrong hands.

然而大多数的钱适当地被解释，当它流过一个公司和契约的复杂安排在错误的手中结束的时候，公众的钱可能不法地被转移。

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The only people for whom the lowest-spending state is the "worst" are those who are committed, either ideologically or self-interestedly, to pouring more money into schools as an end in itself.

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"Donate enough money to the Senate GOP as an investment that will end up making their corporation an enormous amount of money, all on the backs of hard-working, taxpaying Americans, " said Patrick Purcell of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which represents workers in grocery and retail stores, and in food-processing and meat packing companies.

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The new government also sees getting people into work as an end in itself, not as a means of saving public money.

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