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With so much good fortune around, wondered Kaplan, a sociologist at the Florida Institute of Technology, what becomes of the people who win?
Between July and September 1984, he surveyed 576 lottery winners (their prizes ranging from $10,000 to several million dollars). He found that despite tlie financial cormicopia, "the vast majority of winners and their spouses kept working." Specifically, only 11 percent of 446 winners iinil 13 percent of their 253 spouses who w...

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