Word: cash
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...toll-free number that AT&T had randomly assigned to their video-gear company, Oscarvision Systems. On the telephone dial, their number spells CHECK-IN, which they first realized eight years ago when a hotel called and asked for the rights to their number. But the cash offer was too tiny to bother with, so the Oscars held on to their digits even though the spelling had no connection with video...
Tenant activist William S. Noble said Harvard may have wanted to "increase the cash flow for the new buyer. They wouldn't have needed to raise rents if they wanted to keep ownership...
MORRIS must not be allowed to cash in on his irresponsibility. Morris' computer expertise is admirable in a diminutive "Wargames" way, but ignorance or disregard for the law is no excuse. While the reclusive "computer hacker" has undeniably become a part of our society, his creativity is better suited to entrepreneurism a la Steven Jobs and Apple Computer than senseless destruction...
Decades of misuse have left the earth spent and barren; today only 2% of Haiti is forested. The rape of trees began in colonial times with the export of hardwoods, used for the production of everything from dyes to ships. These days trees are the peasants' only real cash crop. A muddy brown ring surrounds Haiti's coast as the topsoil erodes and dissolves into the turquoise Caribbean, leaving behind what amounts to tropical desert. Reforestation efforts are outpaced by the country's demand for charcoal, a critical fuel in the urban areas...
...also become a cash machine with many ways of making money. To begin with, KKR charges investors in its buyout funds annual management fees amounting to 1.5% of their investments. Companies taken private by KKR pay the firm 1% to 2% of the purchase price for handling the transaction. But the really big money rolls in when KKR starts to sell off divisions of the companies it acquires. So far, KKR has taken in $7 billion by unloading parts of Beatrice. In recent years the investors in KKR's buyout funds have earned annual returns of about 30%. Says James...