Word: greenbackers
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...cardboard boxes and suitcases stuffed with cash to the tellers' windows. That simple method of handling his share of the $12 billion or so in "nar-cobucks" that flood Florida each year used to be the norm-until he and others like him began running afoul of Operation Greenback, the federally coordinated effort to control the drug trade by strangling its cash flow...
...refrigerator and a dressing room as big as his old office. The A's flagging radio contract was sold by Eisenhardt to San Francisco-based KSFO and eight other area stations, and the 30-game television package will be renegotiated next season. The result of this greenback good will: by this week the club will have drawn more fans to the coliseum than it did in all of 1979. More than 3,000 season tickets have been sold. Said Martin, after signing a new five-year pact: "The only charter we had last year was a bus. The Haases...
...made a point of bringing a dollar bill into one session with his advisers, but forgot to take coins with him also and had to ask Aide David Fischer for some. The purpose was to try out a gesture that he later used on TV: holding up the greenback in one hand and tossing a quarter, a dime and a penny onto his desk with the other in order to dramatize the way inflation has shriveled the purchasing power of a dollar earned in 1960 to a mere 36? today...
...drop in U.S. oil use should have given the dollar a needed boost on money markets. But the greenback twitched indecisively as traders remained mesmerized by the theatrics of the Iranian drama. Since the freezing of Iran's money in U.S. banks, some of the counterthreats from Tehran have been plainly bluster. "We have the dollar by the throat," chortled Banisadr. Not quite. Though the National Iranian Oil Co. announced that it no longer will accept dollars for oil, Iran needs the U.S. currency to pay for imports of everything from Australian wheat to Japanese machinery, which...
...spree on the Big Board. The dumping spread, irrationally, not only to the commodities and futures markets but also to the international currency centers. Out of fear and uncertainty, traders who had been buying dollars on Monday on the logical theory that the Fed's moves would strengthen the greenback abruptly began selling them again...