Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...plaid suit, green and black loafers, pearl and diamond stickpin). That is, until 1978, when Wilson gained national headlines for his part in the "Koreagate" scandal. The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct found Wilson guilty of lying to conceal the fact that he had received an illegal cash gift of $1,000 from Tongsun Park, the Korean influence peddler, and the entire House voted overwhelmingly to "reprimand...
Charlie Wilson has operated imaginatively in other ways. When he married a Korean beauty named Hyun Ju Chang, four receptions were staged in their honor. All yielded handsome returns; indeed, at the one held in a Washington, D.C., restaurant, envelopes of cash from lobbyists and well-wishers were collected at the door. For those without the foresight to bring money, Wilson staffers accepted credit card payments, which were exchanged for cash by the restaurant...
...whole world is so rotten with reverence for pelf, one is not surprised to see a work of art esteemed only for its cash value. In today's world economy, which resembles nothing so much as Goya's picture of Saturn eating his children, art is just one more object of sacrifice...
...layoffs spreading in the crucial U.S. auto industry, manufacturers and union leaders have been complaining about the surge of imported cars, particularly from Japan. At last the Japanese themselves are becoming concerned that the U.S. may erect trade barriers. To head off growing calls for protection, as well as cash in on the U.S. demand for its cars, Honda, a scrappy company that was started in 1948 and has become an aggressive exporter to many countries, has decided to assemble cars in the U.S. and compete on even terms with domestic manufacturers...
Though none of the potential uses of this technology has yet been proved commercially, Ovshinsky has patented 102 possible applications. Several large companies have shown interest and have put up cash to spur development and to buy licensing rights to any end results. IBM and Burroughs bought into new ways of storing information on ovonic memory chips. Eastman Kodak, West Germany's Agfa and Japan's Asahi paid to participate in ECD's work toward a film that might be made without silver...