According to the national lottery web site, the heritage lottery fund
has distributed a total of £3,400,028,985. I don't think it's all gone
to the concept, Some of it has probably gone to quite solid objects,
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John Geoffrey Walker
Wednesday, February 15, 2006, 7:30:28 PM, Alan Freeman wrote:
> 3.3 thousand million what?
> Unless it's old Turkish Lira, this seems like a humungously large amount -
> are you sure there aren't a few zeroes extra in there?
> A
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> The idea of a cultural turn in economic geography brought to mind my
> puzzledment yesterday in a meeting with the chair of the national heritage
> lottery fund, which has allocated 3.3 thousand million to the concept
> "heritage".
> This strikes me as quite a lot of cash to throw at a concept?
> My mind was running on the benefits :)
> And how you would construct the good?
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