Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...secret that the U.S. needs better encryption. The electronic age may claim to be founded on openness, but in fact, it's founded on keeping things hidden. You can't have e-cash if people can duplicate their electronic dollar bills, or credit card Web purchases if a third party can listen in and collect the numbers. You also can't do anything important over e-mail if it can be intercepted or if you have no guarantee of whom you're talking to. The ability to keep our bank accounts safe from intruders is more important to national security...
Around $140 in cash was reported stolen. The purse of one of the victims was later recovered in the parking lot of Peabody Terrace, but did not hold any money...
...trading post. For a year now, they've been hawking their wares exclusively on eBay, shipping about 75 items a month, ranging in price from $100 to $2,000. "At the store, you [often] wouldn't make a sale for three or four weeks," says Rolando. "On eBay, the cash flow is always there...
...turned business student, thought to combine cutting-edge DNA analysis with old-fashioned, hawk-the-product marketing. A few years earlier, a lab headed by her father Thomas Caskey patented something called the "short tandem repeat," a shortcut method of sampling DNA. Caskey saw the new technique for the cash cow it could be and founded Identigene, advertising her father's technique as a simple and--at $475 a test--affordable way to establish paternity. Launching an ad blitz that included direct mail, TV talk shows and billboards in 30 U.S. cities, Caskey made sure she got her company...
...places were sold to the highest bidders, the incoming class would be virtually indistinguishable from a non-auction class, 10 sets of parents (some of them, presumably, loyal alumni) would be grateful to the college rather than deeply offended, and the college would have a bundle of cash that it could use to provide scholarships for worthy applicants who'd got in under their own steam...