Word: cash
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bingo before they are flown, bused and driven out that same night. They are greeted at the entrance by handsome young Seminole men in black tuxedos who direct them to the ticket windows. There they buy bingo packets costing from $79 to $289. They may win cash prizes ranging from a few dollars to $125,000, or a new Lincoln Town Car, or a beach-front condominium, or a trip to Las Vegas...
...group they are with. They are mostly silent, hunched over their sheets of cards. Occasionally a cheer will go up and cowbells will ring when someone yells "Bingo!" They scurry up, to a smattering of applause, to the platform in the center of the room to get their cash. If they don't scurry fast enough the other players hoot at them to hurry so they can get on with the game...
...Bruins' Bernie Buonanno, Sam Iserson, Greg Rogers and Jamie Munro were all able to cash in on their goal scoring opportunities. Not just once but twice...
These would be only start-up costs. The task force recommended that the Government commit itself to keep HOP going through the end of the century at first-year levels or higher. That would imply an outlay of perhaps more than $36 billion in additional federal cash alone over the next twelve years. Less costly proposals would ease the terms on which FHA mortgages are made available to home buyers. Prospects for immediate action are dim. Under terms of the budget compromise reached last fall between the White House and Congress, an extra $3.4 billion for housing would have...
...three largest supermarket chains helped Noriega's cause by bowing to government pressure and reopening stores that had been shut for ten days by the general strike. Meanwhile, several U.S. companies, including Texaco and Eastern Air Lines, paid nearly $3 million in taxes and fees to Panama's cash- starved treasury. The firms said the payments were part of the normal course of business. The money temporarily relieved a financial squeeze that had grown severe since Washington froze some $50 million in Panamanian funds in the U.S last month. To prevent companies from easing Noriega's fiscal woes any further...