Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...that, as he apparently believed, the sheik in the Washington house would be willing to contribute to political campaigns. Quite innocently, it seems, she passed the word to South Dakota Senator Larry Pressler, whose forlorn try for the Republican presidential nomination was then still alive but in need of cash. Silvestri drove Pressler to the sheik's house, where the candidate assumed he was to meet some men who had formed a legal political action committee. But when Pressler asked about their PAC, he was astounded by a counter-question: "What's a PAC?" When they offered...
...first tapes were quickly reviewed by officials at the department's highest levels to see if the tactics used by the actor-agents in the field were proper. Moreover, each actual cash payoff was witnessed by a Justice Department attorney, who sat in an adjoining room and watched a closed-circuit TV monitor. In some instances, the attorney would telephone one of the agents serving the sheik, if the bribe suggestions were getting too bold. The agent picking up the telephone would be advised to ease the pitch...
...until we have that problem here. If we don't do something about it, we're headed for the best government that money can buy." Second, Dreyfus wants to revive the state's Democratic and Republican parties, which are nearly broke. By passing the PACs' cash on to candidates, the parties would serve as what Dreyfus called "a filter between the special interest money and the candidates, a buffer between policy making and dollars...
...interest rates are at their highest levels in a century, and the economy is by all accounts poised for its second slump in six years, experts have been predicting for months that people would soon start to cut back on spending and borrowing, and stash away more of their cash in the worry that hard times lie ahead. So much for fine economic theories...
...motivated people to discover new ways to lift borrowing and spending power. Anyone with a decent credit rating can get not just one Master Charge or Visa card but several of every kind-each from a competing bank, and each with credit lines that offer the opportunity to draw cash advances of up to several thousand dollars a month...