Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slide in the contemporary market -- the junk bonds, as distinct from the Impressionist blue chips -- is not helped by the fact that some of the biggest buyers of former years, like advertising mogul Charles Saatchi, are now strapped for cash and have turned into sellers...
...Nintendo, with a $2.7 billion U.S. market to protect, may be trying to buy some respect. It has created a $3 million fund at M.I.T.'s Media Laboratory to study "how children learn while they play." "This is not guilt money," insists Media Lab director Nicholas Negroponte. The cash will be given, apparently with no strings attached, to support the work of Professor Seymour Papert, creator of the Logo computer language and one of the most influential names in computer education. His research could eventually lead to new and better kinds of Nintendo games...
...statement after the vote, Secretary of Administration and Finance L. Edward Lashman said the administration is developing cash sources to meet the payment as soon as possible. "The action by the House is especially helpful in providing legislative direction as to how the obligation can be funded," Lashman said...
...last major universities to jump on the licensing bandwagon, Harvard can now cash in on its prestigious name--something that merchants and their suppliers have been doing for some time now. "The selling of the name," as some derisively call it, is a multi-million dollar enterprise that involves manufacturers as distant from Harvard Yard as Spokane, Wash., merchants as close as Mass. Ave. and consumers from all parts of the world...
...knows how to find the booty. Case in point: last fall a real estate developer who was two years delinquent on a $2 million loan suddenly showed up at his Houston bank and offered to settle for $200,000. Bank officers wondered whether he might be harboring far more cash. They called in Pankau, who combed public records and found that the developer had come into a big inheritance. When confronted, the businessman agreed to pay his full $2 million debt plus $500,000 interest...