Word: cash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...With such a diffuse and crowded field and a chance that the early votes will be splintered, there is a distinct advantage to having a regional base, especially if no one else does. Gore's base helped him enter the new year with nearly $2.4 million in ready campaign cash, second only to Michael Dukakis among Democrats. Consultant Bob Squier calls Gore's ability to build a regional support system the "first institutional breakthrough among the Democrats...
...spook, The Phantom of the Opera. Along the way swaps bell-bottoms for swank Belgravia flat, 1,350-acre English country estate, choice property on the French Riviera, $6 million apartment in Manhattan, private jet, beautiful second wife and a worldwide musical empire that, conservatively, rings his personal cash register to the tune of $12 million a year...
...mobsters lived. He had a sense of their behavior and values. "I knew how to act natural so no alarms would go off," he says. So natural, in fact, that as a Mob hanger-on, he got close to Mafia Soldier Lefty Ruggiero, a neurotic worrier, chronically short of cash, who became Pistone's mentor in check-cashing scams and drug and gambling deals. Pistone also "felt a kind of kinship" with Dominick ("Sonny Black") Napolitano, a killer who kept pigeons on the roof of his Brooklyn apartment building and was to become the acting boss of the Bonanno family...
Burglars broke into Louie's Superette, the grocery and convenience store near Mather House, over Christmas break, and stole more than $2500 in cash and beer...
...addition to the $2500 in cash in the safe, the burglars took between 15 and 20 case of Budweiser and Michelob beer and some laundry detergent, Chin said...