Word: cashing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...obscure law passed in 1977, probably in the belief that the country's greatest author, Jorge Luis Borges, might win the Nobel Prize for Literature, any living Argentine laureate receives the salary of a supreme court justice, or about $5,000 a month, in addition to the cash award given by the Nobel Foundation. Last week, to the public displeasure of the junta, Pérez Esquivel was named the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Peace...
...purchase of Teleprompter is a welcome new opening for Westinghouse. The cash-rich company has not made a major corporate acquisition in more than ten years, and Westinghouse will have the advantage of moving into a field that it already knows. The company now owns five VHF television channels, one UHF station, seven AM radio stations and four FM radio outlets. It also syndicates to other TV stations such programs as the John Davidson Show and PM Magazine. The firm, however, has almost reached the maximum number of television and radio stations that the Federal Communications Commission will permit...
...drove when Dad thought you were up to it. In an interview two weeks ago, he reminisced about a summer job helping to remodel houses at age 14: "At the end of the week, all the contractor had to do was reach in his pocket and take out the cash to pay me. No auditors, no bookkeeping, no withholding of funds...
...hands high) colt to the races, Niatross showed none of the gangliness of youth, winning his first six starts. Enter Stockbroker Guida, a Merrill, Lynch executive who dabbled in harness syndications as a sideline. In September of 1979, Guida bought half-interest in the colt for $2.5 million in cash plus performance bonuses. He quickly recouped that investment by selling 20 shares at $200,000 each...
...Tour in America (which, appropriately, failed to arrive in time for a Cannes screening), sub-titled, in mock self-denunciation, The Great Rock-and-Roll Swindle. The latter goes through agonized, pornographic, animated, insistent, transcontinental, and terminal lengths to prove that the Sex Pistols were nothing more than a "Cash from Chaos" scheme of their kilted manager Malcolm McLaren. It is not only fascinating, but convincing. Like the film's beleaguered production, its distribution is currently haltered, but you'll probably get a chance to see it someday. It's slick revisionism...