Word: looting
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...millions of Connery's into an unsecured French real estate deal, which collapsed. Richards was ordered by a British court to pay Connery $4 million but shortly afterward claimed he was bankrupt. Great Hera! Probably not even Wonder Woman, to say nothing of James Bond, can recover the loot...
...Federal Election Commission last October, his campaign has raised nearly $8 million. Campaign officials think they'll raise the rest of the $21 million they are legally allowed to spend on the campaign by April. Furthermore, they will have the luxury of not having to spend all this loot acquired mostly through a state of the art direct mail fundraising campaign on a series of primaries and caucuses. Instead, the GOP will be able to use most of it to bash the Democratic nominee over the head come fall...
...largest lottery prize ever won in North America, a tax-free check for $13,890,588.80 (or more than $11 million U.S.). The Kellys had spent the previous week doing "a lot of sweating" with their lawyer as they tried to figure out what to do with so much loot. By the time the couple surfaced, they had already bought a new Oldsmobile, planned on getting a new house and quit their jobs (he was a $320-a-week truck driver, she a $150-a-week dry-cleaning attendant). The rest would go to relatives, traveling and charities. Uh, Dear...
Some of the robbers are rather intriguing. Last year's "Yankee Bandit," so called for the New York Yankees baseball cap he wore during his robberies, invariably broke into a broad smile as he left with his loot. He robbed 55 banks in six months for a total take...
...hockey players can confound the world by winning again, or even whether the Olympic committee can exceed its previous stuffiness in the matter of amateurism (it can: two champion skiers, Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark and Liechtenstein's Hanni Wenzel, were ruled out of this Olympics for accepting their loot too directly). No, what is fascinating is to learn whether the harried and exasperated hosts, driven googly by the problems of cosseting tens of thousands of athletes and their keepers and watchers in a region where even lichen feel uncomfortable, will drink up all the booze in their country before competition...