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中国考博辅导首选学校 2015云南大学考博英语真题阅读理解精练 Well for a fortnight itwas a splendidparty. Now for theOlympic bills—and that hangover will last for years. The Greek Olympic committee reckons it can break even: half of its $2.3 billion budget for running the games will come via the International Olympic Committee from broadcasters most of the rest from commercial sponsors ticketsalesandmerchandising.Butwhat aboutthetaxpayer? Overall Greek and (modestly) other European Union taxpayers have spent$300mhelpingtorunthegames nearly$1.5billionkeepingthem secure and some $7 billion preparing facilities for them. In all that means near 5% of 2003 Greek GDP roughly $800 for every single inhabitant pensioner or babe taxpayer or not. Top-level sport is a business albeit not in the Olympic version one aiming for profit—nor answerable to outside shareholders. Should it be subsidized to this extent? Most Greeks think so. They were told the games would be costly. Few can have doubted the costs would go wildly over budget; in the event by about 50%. That figure of $800 per head was not put flatly to them but if the opinion polls are any guide four Greeks in five welcomed thegames—andprobably stilldo:theircountryrebutted the sneers that nothing would be ready itran the showwell ithas had a terrific time and weeks of exposure to the world’s cameras and it is left with some durable improvements to its infrastructure. Anyway theseGreeks can say an electedgovernment backedbypublic 中国考博辅导首选学校 opinion isentitled to dowhat it likes:others sendmen intospace we run the Olympics—as we should have been allowed to do in 1996 centenary of their first modern celebration。 That istrue.But democraticgovernmentscandodamn-foolthings; sendingmen into space for example.Was the Greeks’spendingwise? Prestige publicityandproudmemoriesarenottobe ignored.Butwhat else is left?A magnificen