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...enjoy as Americans. And the lack of any sense of obligation makes it very hard to expand those blessings to include, for example, some kind of guaranteed health care. But obligations are not voluntary. And the most efficient and fairest way to satisfy them is cash on the barrelhead...
...received a detailed briefing on Unocal. On Feb. 23, the board gave its go-ahead to him to pursue a deal. But in early March, Unocal's board rejected Chevron's initial offer?an all-stock deal worth less than $60 per share. "They wanted some cash on the barrelhead and knew CNOOC would be coming forward with a cash bid," says a banker who advised Unocal...
...expire this September. Speaking last week to some 5,000 members of the National Corn Growers Association and their guests in Des Moines, assembled in the half-filled Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Reagan proclaimed: "The granary door is open, and the exchange will be cash on the barrelhead...
...barterers, though, still do some things the old-fashioned cash-on-the-barrelhead way. Atwood Richards pays its 58 employees primarily in cash, although some workers gladly accept some of their pay in the form of free hotel and travel services while on vacation...
There are not many physical assets for either the U.S. or Iran to expropriate. Many U.S. businessmen preferred to export products to Iran or to provide services in exchange for cash on the barrelhead. The Commerce Department estimates that U.S. real estate and other assets in Iran amount to only about $300 million. U.S. businessmen can file claims against the Tehran government's frozen $6 billion to compensate for the assets they stand to lose in Iran...