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North testified that Casey had given him a ledger in which to record the flow of money to the contras and other secret operations. At times this account contained as much as $175,000 in cash and traveler's checks, kept in North's office...
...days later Casey learned that angry middlemen in the Iran arms sales were claiming they had lost millions and were threatening to expose the diversion. Thus in early October, North testified, Casey told him to "clean up the files." North went on a shredding binge that included the account ledger and had him turning documents into confetti on the day he was fired...
...less than a minute, plain-speaking Barbknecht ticked off all the dirty linen. Then he moved over to the positive side of the ledger. Havana, it turns out, is a town that just won't die. Farmers are in terrible straits, as everyone knows, but Havana's farmers keep on plugging. This week they were sowing barley and wheat. More important, every other ounce of energy was directed toward keeping Havana on its feet. They had formed a development corporation that had, among other things, brought in a grocery store by providing attractive incentives, like free space. "You want...
...industry's No. 1 company. Microsoft's rise was due in large part to an agreement with IBM to develop software for the manufacturer's personal-computer line. But now Lotus is getting an even more challenging IBM assignment: to adapt the top- selling Lotus 1-2-3 business-ledger software and other programs to much larger computers. Lotus would thus become the first company among its peers to graduate from personal computers to huge mainframes. The deal is just as promising for IBM, which will now have the two top software makers under its wing...
...Council is one of the richest student enterprises around, operating on its yearly budget of $20,000 provided by termbill charges. It doesn't take long with a council ledger to begin wondering, however, how serious the student government is about getting full value for each student-supplied dollar...