Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cable early next year, and has formed a home-video partnership with Columbia Pictures. Only Tisch at CBS has held back from such diversification. Since taking over the network in 1986, he has sold off CBS's record and publishing divisions, leaving the company with a hoard of cash and inviting rumors that he plans to sell the network. Tisch denies it; he has instead gone shopping for more local stations. (Despite the troubled times, the network-owned stations have continued to show healthy profits...
RIDING A SMALL, FAST-MOVING VEHICLE. Anticipating the collapse, the managers of suburban Chicago's relatively tiny Mathers Fund moved 62% of its assets into cash in the months before Oct. 19. Then they plunged back into the market during the last 45 minutes of Black Monday and kept buying for nine days. Since then, their purchases have surged in value, helping to boost the Mathers Fund from $154 million in assets just before the crash to $201 million now. Its increase of 27% during 1987 was the best performance by any U.S. growth fund...
...Come a little closer, come on, come on, fifth row bleachers--12 bucks, fifth row--12 bucks, let's see your cash...here...
DURING the mid-1970s, a "drugcourier profile" was developed by the Drug Enforcement Administration to help federal agents identify possible traffickers. According to the DEA a "typical" drug runner is someone inappropriately dressed man with a big roll of cash who acts nervous around police. Unfortunately, this technique, which has led to scores of arrests across the country, is leading to the violation or infringement upon our basic civil rights...
Flush with cash, Haft raised $250 million more in junk-bond financing for his Dart Group, which owns 262 Trak Auto and 212 Crown Books shops. Within a year, Dart mounted unsuccessful takeover campaigns for the May department stores, the Jack Eckerd drugstore chain and Beatrice. Profits on those raids: $13.2 million. The Hafts' biggest score came in October 1986, when the Safeway company paid Dart $59 million to go away, so that the chain's management could execute a $4.1 billion leveraged buyout of the firm. Dart's total take at the Safeway checkout stand: $137 million. Six months...