Word: cashes
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...have been an "insurance theft," where the criminals hope to make their money by bargaining with the museum's insurance company for a cash fraction of the value. That might sound hopeful, except that there is no insurance company to bargain with. The Gardner Museum -- like many other U.S. museums -- carries damage insurance but no theft coverage on its collection. To do so in the context of today's art prices, a spokesman explained, could cost some $3 million a year; the museum's total operating budget is only $2.8 million...
Over the past 15 years, arms exports outside the Warsaw Pact have earned Czechoslovakia an average of $850 million annually in cash or such essential raw materials as oil and mineral ores; additional revenues flow in from the sale of ammunition. All told, the arms trade accounts for a quarter to a half of Czechoslovakia's foreign exchange earnings. Havel said last week his country would continue to sell arms to democracies but not to totalitarian regimes. However, cautions Foreign Ministry spokesman Lubos Dobrovsky, "we have existing obligations that we must honor...
...damaged battleship Iowa and use savings from a hiring freeze. Bush said Congress should vote the aid package by April 6. It is expected to do so, but only after enlarging the pot. Since the President has opened the military vault, Congress presumably will look for the extra cash at the Pentagon...
Although the size of the reportedly all-cash bid was not disclosed, industry analysts have put the price tag at more than $1 billion. Tobu plans to promote Saks in Asia. B.A.T. is said to have received several bids for the highly profitable retailer since putting it up for sale last year in an effort to repel a $21 billion hostile takeover by Sir James Goldsmith...
...perpetrator, described as a white man wearing a red cap and a plaid shirt, entered the Alewife branch of the Bank of Boston at about 12:30 p.m., passed a note to a teller and left with a bag of cash, police said...