Word: shells
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When TIME reported two weeks ago that Hong Kong interests used a U.S. shell corporation to guarantee a $2.2 million loan to a G.O.P. think tank, ex-party chairman Haley Barbour (the think tank's head) denied knowledge of foreign backing. But a secret memo obtained by TIME shows that a year before Young Bros. Development-USA collateralized the 1994 loan, Barbour was advised of plans to seek overseas funds for the National Policy Forum. Last week the G.O.P. refunded $122,400 in Young Bros. campaign money, conceding its illegal Hong Kong origins. Democrats, smelling blood after months of battering...
Bill Gates' drive to dominate the world of consumer electronics took another step forward last week when Microsoft agreed to shell out $425 million to buy WebTV, a struggling manufacturer of Net-surfing set-top boxes. Despite a glitzy $50 million holiday advertising campaign, WebTV sales were abysmal, reportedly just 50,000 units. So why did the colossus of Redmond, Washington, bite at such...
After deciding to shell out the money for one of these prep courses, the question of which courses, to take is still an issue...
...need a new VCR to take advantage of your new digital TV, so expect to shell out $500 or so for one of those. Then again, by the time that analog signs off the airwaves, DVD and DVD-R discs will have put the VCR next to the eight-track on the dust bin of tech history, so that's not much of a problem...
...team going into the third period with a lead tends to go into a bit of a defensive shell and that's what they did." Halfnight explained...