Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rural areas where nobody thought much about a working population that needed public transportation, day care and other amenities. Most critical is the housing crisis from bauble to municipal bauble along the glittery necklace of Rocky Mountain resorts. Here, each square foot of real estate today fetches a ransom. Gone to outrageously priced condos are the apartments the help used to rent -- and there is scant room left to build more. The reason is location, location, location: these picturesque hamlets beckon and charm and cost the earth because they are usually isolated and they often cannot grow, surrounded -- especially...
Cynics in the audience will point out that it would have been much, much cheaper to just pay Payne the $3.7 million and get it over with--after all is said and done, the price tag probably averages more per hostage than the original ransom would have been...
...gift, which according to Director of Athletics William J. Cleary Jr. 56, came from "generous donors," was as much a ransom as a token of generosity...
...just that. In 1986, Edgar Sr. proclaimed Efer his heir as head of the company. He was chosen over his older brother Samuel, who in 1975 was the center of a sensational kidnapping case; one of the two captors claimed Samuel had arranged the abduction himself to extort ransom money from his father. The family believed Samuel's angry denials...
...president of Mexico's largest banking group, Banamex, was held for an undisclosed ransom after being abducted by at least six gunmen in Mexico City. Billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu is just one of 2,000 Mexican businessmen who have been kidnapped for profit in the past five years...