Word: cash
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Rivals or Partners. It is the urban crisis mentioned by Muskie that is the real testing ground for the Great Society, for 70% of all Americans are city dwellers. To the nation's mayors, the answer is more cash. Complaining about cutbacks in a number of urban programs ordered by the President last week for the purpose of shrinking the budget deficit, New York's John Lindsay cried: "Something is wrong with our national priorities when we reduce our commitment to our cities by well over a billion dollars at the same time we leave our space program...
...detector test. Bailey was hired merely to cross-examine the prosecution polygrapher. But during the trial, his boss, 72, collapsed of a heart attack. Bailey, then 27, took over and won the case. After that, he was hired by the four suspects in U.S. history's biggest cash heist, the $1,551,277 Plymouth, Mass., mail robbery.* After one suspect had agreed to help postal inspectors bug the other suspects' phones, Bailey got the tipster to agree to tape-record his bugging conversations with the inspectors, who have not yet been able to get an indictment...
Since April, the funds have cut the share of their assets held in stocks and corporate bonds from 94.3% to an all-time low of 90.3%. They now have a phenomenal $3.2 billion of their $33.5 billion assets in cash and Government securities-which could be quickly converted into shares...
...kinetic form of prayer-sometimes anointing herself with fireplace ashes. From these rituals, Carry apparently drew prodigious strength. While raiding the Senate Bar in Topeka on Feb. 5, 1901, she disarmed a pistol-toting bartender (his two shots missed) and pulverized a $500 back-bar mirror. When an iron cash register stood proof against her hatchet, she lifted it overhead, carried it outside and smashed it on the street...
...entire cost of remodeling Radcliffe Library is approximately $780,000, which has been collected in the past year on a cash basis; four donors, in fact, have given most of that...