He'd just walked away from a business failure in Florida, running through"several hundred thousand dollars" in a blighted attempt to build cell phone towers.
The president offered to seed their world champions, Mr Kasparov and Mr Karpov, through to the semi-finals, in effect guaranteeing each of them a purse of several hundred thousand dollars and requiring them to win only two matches to take the title.
Total time chasing paper: up to several months. (If you plan to contract with the federal government through a program like Head Start, the timetable may be longer.) Total cost: several hundred to severalthousand dollars for the license and some ancillary training.
Severalthousand Italians now live in Malindi and it is not just the Italian women wandering half-naked through conservative bits of the town that upsets local Muslims.