Word: cash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pointed the gun at me and said 'give me your cash or I'll blow your brains out,'" Sinclair said. The gun was completely concealed beneath the man's jacket, she said. "It could have been his finger for all I know," she added...
Sinclair said the robber demanded that she handover all of the cash in the register. "He askedfor the large bills first, then for the tens, thenthe fives and then the ones," Sinclair said. Afterhanding him all of the cash in the register, shesaid, she was told to lie on the ground until theman had left the store...
...government officials. I could understand her hating such preferential treatment, but then again, she and her colleagues do pretty well because of it. For notwithstanding my status as a foreigner, the "soft sleeper" car was "sold out" until a kind official laid a carton of cigarettes and a small cash "bonus" on the ticket agent. "Funny to you, isn't it?" said the official. "Here I am from one bureau of the government, and I have to help you pay off another bureau to get what the regulations say is yours by right...
...Cash seizures from the drug trade totaled more than $100 million last year in Los Angeles, topping the Miami toll for the first time. The city's Federal Reserve surplus--one way of measuring illegal money laundering--has jumped by more than 2,000 percent in five years, to $3.8 billion last year...
...interesting to wonder who read it, under what circumstances, and whether it was part of a family fortune," said Anne Merrill, a Widener clerk. Merrill, running the cash box at the Widener basement sale, pointed to a copy of Histoire des Ordres Religieux, a rare collection at the sale priced...