Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Angry police officials admit using radar but deny the speed-trap charge. If the class-action lawsuit is successful, the city will have to cough up the cash and the state will have to subtract at least one moving violation from the records of every driver nabbed along that stretch of the highway. "What can I tell you?" says Franceschi. "They got me three times in two years...
Colombian cocaine cartel leaders are apparently investing in precious gems. "Cash is a pain," says a DEA official. "It's bulky if you move it, traceable if you bank it, and it mildews if you bury it." Which may explain why Colombians have been reported buying up jewels -- principally diamonds -- in Antwerp, Amsterdam and Hong Kong. U.S. agents don't think these buyers are Christmas shopping. "You can transport millions of dollars' worth of diamonds in your back pocket," says an investigator. Furthermore, diamonds don't rot when stored in the underground caches favored by Colombian dons...
Moscow has pragmatic interests in staying slightly apart from the international pack baying at Saddam's heels. Economic ties with Baghdad have been a lucrative source of hard currency for the cash-strapped Soviet Union, and could continue to be in the future. There is also the unresolved question of the nearly 9,000 Soviet citizens still in Iraq, the largest national group trapped there from the West and East bloc countries...
...sale will provide an infusion of cash for the King Foundation, which for 30 years has been a contributor to environmental groups ranging from the Sierra Club to Adopt-a-Stream. "The causes that we're interested in need help now, not 10 years from now," explains Bullitt. "Money does the most good if you do something preventive, rather than something remedial...
Even if Saddam finds someone to sell to him, he will soon run out of cash for supplies if the boycott of Iraqi and Kuwaiti oil continues to hold. By week's end the embargo was nearly 100% complete, choking off all exports from both countries...