Macau law, for instance, requires identification for any casino transaction above the equivalent of sixty-one thousand dollars a threshold that is six times higher than that for casinos in the United States.
Hennessy earned six hundred and seventy-one thousanddollars in salary from Stanford last year, but he has made far more as a board member of and shareholder in Google and Cisco.
One hundred fifty thousanddollars could pay for all of these things combined -- investments in education and research that are essential to economic growth that benefits all of us.