Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some firms already active in Asia through joint ventures are buying out their cash-strapped local partners, thus positioning themselves to reap all the profits from a future upturn. In South Korea, Coca-Cola has taken over the bottling and distribution businesses of three former partners--Doosan Beverage, Woo Sung Food and Honam Food--and it is no secret that Coors is negotiating to take full control of Jinro Coors Beer. South Korea is one of a tiny handful of troubled Asian countries expected to resume some positive growth, however small, by late...
...major target will be consumer goods, which many others also consider an attractive field for U.S. investment. One reason is that some Asian companies are reorganizing their countries' chaotic distribution systems, replacing mom-and-pop stores with modern networks of warehouses and big retail outlets, but need outside cash to finish...
Schiliro, who's now running the FBI's investigation of the Africa bombings, remembers feeling a chill run through his body. His fellow agents had already discovered that the terrorist now had the cash to back up his threat. Yousef apparently had a benefactor, a wealthy Saudi expatriate named Osama bin Laden, who in the 1980s had bankrolled mujahedin guerrillas fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan and who had fled his Saudi homeland after he had been charged with inciting fundamentalist opposition to the country's royal family...
...form of an annual pledge of $100 million in Time Warner stock. He may have started something. The world's richest man, Bill Gates, long derided for being too penurious, has put $2 billion into his two charitable foundations. Earlier this month he donated $100 million in cash toward vaccinating children in the developing world. It was just one of numerous conspicuous gifts made in 1998. Among them: Armenian-American billionaire financier Kirk Kerkorian's $200 million in aid to earthquake-ravaged Armenia, and businessmen Ted Forstmann and John Walton's $100 million fund to subsidize private-school scholarships...
Currency exchange is usually unnecessary, as U.S. dollars will be accepted at Home under most circumstances. However, keep in mind that no locations at Home will accept Crimson Cash...