Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gehlen group must have set a record of sorts. At one point, testified Felfe, his Russian bosses urged him to get a transfer because there already was a surplus of Soviet agents in his department. Shortly before their arrest, added Felfe, he and Clemens received letters of commendation and cash bonuses from the chair man of the Soviet Committee for State Security. Simultaneously, the two agents got citations for ten years' meritorious service-from General Gehlen...
...elbow-one to the office, one to the outside world and one to the rostrum, 75 ft. away. But all those hot lines could not break the ice at the giant auction in the grand ballroom of Manhattan's Astor Hotel. In need of some hard cash, William Zeckendorf, 58, put 25 New York City properties up for grabs, hoping to get more than $7,500,000. Only ten of them drew any bid at all, sold for a near-minimum $2,622,000 (which will be whittled down to a mere $1,575,000 when Zeckendorf pays...
...their pains, federal prisoners get compensation ranging from a pack of cigarettes up to $25 in cash. If a volunteer's lot is particularly onerous or carries some risk of major discomfort, the Bureau of Prisons may give him "meritorious good time credits," which shave a few days off his sentence...
...playing to the crowds have refused to allow rate increases to keep up with the country's rampaging inflation. Service has gone from bad to dreadful, the government has been crying for Amforp to sell out, and the company itself has been eager to convert its assets into cash. Last April a deal was struck: the government of President Joao Goulart agreed to pay Amforp $142.7 million over 25 years, and the company pledged to reinvest $101,250,000 in other government-approved ventures in Brazil...
...attempt to conserve cash, Webb & Knapp (Canada) wants to pay the holders of its debentures in interest notes instead of dollars over the next three years and promises to undertake no new projects. But Canadian moneymen were skeptical that Impresario Zeckendorf could really restrain himself. So "Big Bill" had to go. His exit at Trizec followed virtually automatically, and the departure was sweet revenge for Britain's Second Covent Garden Properties Co. Ltd., which has a 24.5% interest in Trizec; six representatives of Second Covent Garden had been forced off the board of the U.S.'s Webb & Knapp...