Word: stash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were hurt in a nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo subway during Monday-morning rush hour. Two days later, police began raiding the main compounds of a religious sect, Aum Shinrikyo, seizing what appeared to be laboratory equipment and tons of chemicals. Police have confirmed that they found a stash of 22 lbs. of gold ingots and yen valued at more than $7 million. The cult's leader, Shoko Asahara, denied any link to the attack...
...past three months, the DreamWorkers have journeyed to the end of the rainbow, to Seattle and Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Europe, and have found several pots of gold. They are securing a $1 billion line of credit from Chemical Bank. More stash will come through advances in such fields as pay TV (HBO), music distribution (MCA could win there), worldwide pay- and free-TV rights. The team is negotiating with the California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS) to invest almost $300 million; that deal, which both sides had hoped to present to the CalPERS board last week, is delayed...
...afternoon the authorities had been ordering residents to get out of town, and by twilight most people had. By 5 p.m. the water was slithering into the house through the furnace; by 6 it was 3 ft. deep inside. There wasn't enough room on the shelves to stash everything, so they used their floating mattresses as arks. The two cats, disinclined to swim for it, curled up on top of the kitchen cabinets...
...good news/bad news conversation with her. Good: I'm now a Metaverse customer-service rep. Bad: I don't have a cubicle in some Edge City office complex. I telecommute from home -- from her home, from her sofa. I sit there all day long, munching through my dwindling stash of tax-deductible jelly beans, wearing an operator's headset, gripping the control unit, using it like a puppeteer's rig to control other people's Rasters on other people's screens, all over the U.S. I can see them -- the wide-angle view from their set-top boxes is piped...
Throughout China, Cuba, Russia and much of Eastern Europe, people from shopkeepers to schoolteachers stash greenbacks as a shield against hyperinflation and the sudden devaluation of their own currencies. In some cases, it is also the only way to do business. Taxi drivers in Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan, prefer their fares in dollars, as do some restaurants in Kiev and St. Petersburg. Says a Russian importer of IBM computers, pulling a thick wad of $50 bills from his pocket: "What do I need rubles for? I want real money...