Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...millions, had not married for love. Dan Villers, Furrow's boss at LaDuke and Fogle, says Furrow later boasted he'd found some of the money--once when it blew out of the eaves of a shed and again in the bottom of a survivalist food barrel. The loose cash may help explain how he was able last week to pay $4,000 for the van he drove to Los Angeles and the taxi fare to Las Vegas...
...perfect setup for high-priced extortion, and last week diplomats were struggling: Do we let the North Koreans launch, or can we buy them off? On the brink of collapse and with its people racked by starvation, North Korea's most successful business is one that involves pulling cash and aid out of South Korea, the U.S. and Japan in exchange for abandoning an arms buildup. Nobody knows just what "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il and his comrades would do to save themselves and their regime. And nobody wants to find...
...relive their most painful moments on TV? For one, fans respond viscerally to hearing stars speak openly about personal obstacles. "They appreciated getting to know me more personally," says Donna Summer, who detailed her battle with depression. And it doesn't hurt that fans express their appreciation with cash. Sales of Lynyrd Skynyrd's 1977 Street Survivors more than doubled the week after its show premiered. In June, Tony Orlando took out a full-page ad in Variety to thank BTM for reviving his career...
...TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl points out that the IMF?s Russian loans "are just as much political decisions as financial or economic ones - an unstable Russia is deemed too dangerous to abandon, and the loans help keep up ties with Washington." And just think ?- some of that cash is flowing right back into the U.S. economy...
...Lake City's Olympic-bribery scandal forced the resignation or dismissal of 10 IOC members, the head of the Atlanta Olympic Committee, Billy Payne, said his group won the 1996 Games without resorting to underhanded tactics. "We did not bribe anyone," he said in February. "We did not make cash payments. We did not give outrageous gifts." And in a June report to the House Commerce Committee investigating violations of federal bribery laws in Olympic bids, Payne and former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young attested to only 38 items exceeding the $200-per-gift limit...