Word: money changer
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...would build a Las Vegas-style extravaganza a mile from the Boardwalk in Atlantic City's Marina district. The women do have Donald Trump--that renowned champion of the little guy--on their team. How could so many politicians bend over backward to please an out-of-town money changer? asks the man who would be in direct competition with Wynn. Oh, the hypocrisy! But even Donald has been trumped. Seven of the 10 homeowners on Bryant Drive have said yes to Wynn's buyout offer, because either they liked the terms or they decided there...
Even as a small boy in Omaha, Nebraska, Warren Buffett wanted to be very, very rich. His first possession was a nickel-plated money changer that he proudly strapped to his belt. By age five he was selling Chiclets from a stand outside his house. At six he bought a six-pack of Coke for a quarter and hawked the sodas for a nickel apiece. He soon was charting stocks and made his first purchase--three shares of energy company Cities Service preferred stock--at age 11; they rewarded him with a $5 gain. Thus launched, Buffett vowed to become...
Back in the Jordanian city of Zarka, his father and brothers wept openly as they insisted Salameh was innocent. They spoke of the many letters they had received from Salameh praising the free and democratic society in which he now lived. They also received financial help. A local money changer says he cashed checks from America for sums that ran as high as four figures. "Mohammed wanted to go to the U.S.A. to make money and help me," says his father Amin Abdul-raheem Salameh, a retired Jordanian army officer. "He said, 'I am ready to work in America...
Anthony Ulasewicz, 63, former New York City policeman and White House gumshoe whose street lingo spiced up Senate Watergate hearings. Arranging hush-money payments, he made so many secretive phone calls from booths that he wore bus driver's money changer on his belt. He called distributing the cash "getting rid of the cookies." Convicted of tax evasion. Given year's probation. Now lives in tiny town of Day (pop. 656) in woods of northern New York. Hunts, fishes, raises chickens ("Just for eggs-I never eat my chickens"). Seeking publisher for 367-page ghostwritten manuscript called Tony...
...efforts, Kissinger's title to replace "Peace Ambassador" might be more exactly "Money Changer...