Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...territory from the French. Then the Soviet Union will undertake to supply the F.L.N. openly. Khrushchev reportedly said: "Once you fully occupy a little bit of Algeria, however tiny it may be, victory is assured. The rest will be just fooling around." So far. Red China has only supplied cash, which enables the F.L.N. to buy weapons in the illegal arms markets of Naples, Hamburg and Antwerp...
...spent so much for so little. Laotians happily joined the army, now 28,000 strong, but it soon became clear that the attraction was not patriotism but the pay, which amounts to roughly triple the amount an average Laotian makes farming or growing opium, the country's only cash crop. Economic aid largely disappeared in graft among Vientiane's ruling politicians, mostly related to one another, who alternate between government office and vacations on the French Riviera. Despite the U.S.'s best efforts, the main highway out of Vientiane is still paved only...
...Charmed Circle." Soapy owed much of his continuing success to Republican arrogance, ineptness, lack of leadership. A 1952 split between Eisenhower and Taft factions died hard. General Motors subsequently supported a conservative wing, while the Fords boosted the liberals. Some big contributors from the auto industry slowed their cash flow when the Republicans began to lose elections.*A determined band of G.O.P. greybeards in the state senate gave the party a black name. They fought free polio vaccine for children, opposed spending bills for education and mental health, blocked efforts to revamp the state industrial code, which was written...
There was a certain glamour about the Van Doren who tried to get away with it. Up to a point there was public sympathy, based on begrudged admiration for this daring young man who went along with the crooked rules of the game to make some cash. But when the bottom fell out, Van Doren was nothing more than immorality personified...
ZECKENDORF EMPIRE has been cut back by $90 million. Bill Zeckendorf, president of Webb & Knapp, big U.S. real estate firm, sold off that much property this year to get cash to rescue beleaguered Freedomland and to help finance multimillion-dollar developments in Los Angeles and Montreal...