Word: greenbacks
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...cardboard boxes and suitcases stuffed with cash to the tellers' windows. That simple method of handling his share of the $12 billion or so in "nar-cobucks" that flood Florida each year used to be the norm-until he and others like him began running afoul of Operation Greenback, the federally coordinated effort to control the drug trade by strangling its cash flow...
...Greenback has had precisely that effect. The dealers have found a number of ways to move large amounts of money while avoiding detection by the feds. By this "laundering" process, ill-gotten gains are made to look like legitimate business receipts...
...refrigerator and a dressing room as big as his old office. The A's flagging radio contract was sold by Eisenhardt to San Francisco-based KSFO and eight other area stations, and the 30-game television package will be renegotiated next season. The result of this greenback good will: by this week the club will have drawn more fans to the coliseum than it did in all of 1979. More than 3,000 season tickets have been sold. Said Martin, after signing a new five-year pact: "The only charter we had last year was a bus. The Haases...
...made a point of bringing a dollar bill into one session with his advisers, but forgot to take coins with him also and had to ask Aide David Fischer for some. The purpose was to try out a gesture that he later used on TV: holding up the greenback in one hand and tossing a quarter, a dime and a penny onto his desk with the other in order to dramatize the way inflation has shriveled the purchasing power of a dollar earned in 1960 to a mere 36? today...