Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Socialist Majesties." But Cambodia, like many pleasant and languid places, is now beset by pressing economic problems. The planned $26 million deficit for this fiscal year has unexpectedly doubled, and the government is so short of cash that the current Five Year Plan is literally out of money. Some $24 million worth of public projects have had to be canceled, and foreign exchange reserves are dwindling at the rate of $1,500,000 a month...
...weeks, the bank's directors had refused to open their files and strongrooms to U.N. investigators, and now the reason for their reluctance was clear. Most of the records were gone, and most of the cash. All the U.N. found was $116.28 in foreign currency-about enough to pay a Congolese army sublieutenant for ten days...
...pieces of clothing, ranging from garter belts to greatcoats, four urns containing human ashes (prayed over daily by reverent warehouse employees), an electric motor, one pinball machine, false teeth, and several false eyeballs. Only 15% of the items are reclaimed. By auctioning the rest, and by pocketing unclaimed cash, the railways grossed...
...NATIONAL CASH REGISTER PAVILION, which resembles some kind of cybernetic component, will demonstrate "The Computer World of Tomorrow," plus the latest developments in office automation...
...step ahead of its creditors. It seemed a healthy and restraining influence on Zeckendorf's unorthodox dealings when 13 months ago he took on as his partners the London real estate firm of Second Covent Garden Properties Co. Ltd.-in return for $43,750,000 in needed cash and loan guarantees that Second Covent pumped into Zeckendorf's $400 million empire. The new British partners shrewdly insisted on one condition: anything they did not like would not happen at Webb & Knapp...