Word: stash
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Since the Eastern Europeans often stash their dollars away, it may take them years to discover that they are the owners of fakes. If they do make the discovery, there is nothing much they can do about it: since acquiring dollars is illegal except through government channels at artificial exchange rates, the man who admits to having a forgery would have to answer a lot of awkward questions...
...Laugh at Distress." Responding to industry and congressional pressures to cool the fight, the Federal Reserve last week took a small step to make it unprofitable for commercial banks to pay high rates for certificates of deposit; it raised the reserves that banks must stash away against large time deposits from 4% to 5%. That only infuriated the board's critics. "An invisible crumb from the rich man's table," fumed Chairman Wright Patman of the House Banking Committee, "a horselaugh at people in distress...
...Godoy needs them there. During the revolt, the three shades of Communism-the Peking-lining Dominican Popular Movement, the Moscow-oriented Dominican Communist Party, the Castroite 14th of June Movement-controlled some 2,500 armed fighters. All three groups have been smuggling arms out of Santo Domingo to stash them in other cities and in the hills...
...moderation and rationality had limits, and these were quickly exhausted. "These niggers were happy before the agitators came in. Why, most of our niggers are richer than white folks; they just stash it away in banks, never improve themselves. And they don't care about each other. When the floods come, it's the white fire department people who save the niggers from drowning. After all this mess, I don't know how many's gonna be saved when the floods come again...
...also a blessed place to stash the younger members of the family with kindly attendants while you fortify yourself with Danish beer at the bar or food at the nearby restaurant...