Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Payless paydays hardly help a government win the loyalty of its citizens -- or employees. A cash squeeze was in fact one element in the pressure that Washington put on Manuel Noriega by freezing Panama's bank accounts in the U.S. But at year's end the Bush Administration had to throw that process into reverse, when the U.S.-installed administration of President Guillermo Endara was due to pay out $50 million in government salaries and had no money in the till...
...unfrozen account in the U.S., and Washington permitted its withdrawal. Then a snag developed. "Did you ever try to get $50 million in $20 and $50 bills?" asked an American participant in the money roundup. After much scrambling, the Federal Reserve Bank in San Antonio accumulated the cash. The Pentagon supplied a C-130 transport, which was loaded from armored personnel carriers hauling the cash; other APCs awaited the plane in Panama. Deadline met -- barely...
Durenberger's transgressions involve much less money than those laid to the Keating Five, but they are just as seamy. In 1985 Durenberger found himself strapped for cash. His marriage was breaking up, and he had four sons to send to college. That year and the next, he collected a total of $100,000 through the book-promotion deal, more than double the Senate's $46,000 limit on honorariums. His aides told groups to send their checks to Piranha Press, the Minnesota publisher of his two books. Piranha passed the money along to him as a "stipend" for promotional...
Char Joslin kept the Crimson heartbeat going with a shorthanded goal in the opening minutes of the game. Harvard had just let two scoring oppurtunities glide by, failing to cash in on two consecutive power plays...
...enemy." Out of the corrals, the mustangs are rotated to one of twelve pastures, then moved periodically to allow the grass to regrow. "I'm a grass specialist," Day explains. "Though some people have romantic notions of the operation, I have to look at it as cash flow. It has to make financial sense." This year potential profits evaporated in the worst drought in memory...