• For Mr McCain, the war is a heaven-sent opportunity to raise his profile and thus convince Republicans to give him money, despite his annoying tendency to take positions contrary to the party line on campaign finance and tobacco.

    ECONOMIST: Suddenly, a pre-primary electability indicator

  • That means the Yankees are faced with the age old problem that they and so many other teams have historically succumbed to: watching a player put up his best years in his 20s, and then paying him huge money afterward as his production declines.

    FORBES: Yankees Should Trade Robinson Cano And Mariano Rivera

  • She sued him in August 2012, claiming that she gave him money to start and expand his original business in exchange for a 53% stake.

    FORBES: Hamdi Ulukaya

  • One bit of controversy remains for Ulukaya: Ex-wife Alyse Giray is suing him for a 53% stake in the company, claiming she gave him money to start and expand his original business.

    FORBES: #1386 Hamdi Ulukaya

  • By enthusiastically endorsing him, by supplying him with money and campaign ads, and by promising that if his conservative opponent in the primary, Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey, were to win on Sept. 12, Laffey wouldn't get a dime from the national Senatorial campaign committee.

    NPR: A Super Tuesday for Lincoln Chafee

  • He may have thought that his money would protect him and that he had nothing to fear.

    FORBES: Mister Schmidt Goes To Washington

  • They had a sale on Thunderbird, but Kinney said that his friend owed him money and promised to take them out on the town later on.

    NEWYORKER: Fiction

  • Saher Macarius, another attorney for the Khans, said earlier this month they had no connection with Shahzad and told CNN his clients didn't know the suspect and did not give him money.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Mr Bruce said he had given his father cash and his grandmother had probably given him some money as well.

    BBC: James Bruce

  • He said he had won tickets to attend the Paralympics in London on 9 September and his sister was to lend him some money.

    BBC: Prestatyn fire death trial: Scared victim 'wanted to move'

  • Despite the fact that Arthur pays U.S. dollars to "own" virtual land in Second Life, and that his renters also pay him in real money, it's unclear whether he, or any of Second Life's "residents, " have lasting rights to these virtual tracts.

    CNN: Can people actually 'own' virtual land?

  • After obtaining an engineering degree, several patents and some seed money, LeMieux has put his career as a business consultant behind him and started his own company , Tremont Electric.

    FORBES: Green Tech, Green Jobs: The New Face Of Cleveland

  • The court heard that Johnson went to Mr Ross's Exeter property and attacked him after saying the victim owed his father money.

    BBC: David Johnson guilty of stabbing man with kitchen knife

  • Hoffman-La Roche, which had spent much money and effort to bring him and his wife safely over from anti-Semitic Europe to New Jersey in 1941, drummed its collective fingers with impatience.

    ECONOMIST: Leo Sternbach

  • Darroussin also stars, as Charles Benesteau, a lawyer who, having received an ample inheritance, stopped practicing and moved to a small apartment in a rowdy part of Paris, where his money both protects and isolates him.

    NEWYORKER: The Premonition

  • Jerry fights and fights, telling Rod that his attitude is hurting him and that people think the only thing he cares about is money.

    FORBES: All You Really Need To Know About Personal Branding From Jerry Maguire

  • The case against the 52-year-old governor, re-elected to his second term in 2006, revolves around telephone recordings of him allegedly talking with friends and associates about money and jobs he may be able to parlay out of his power to appoint a senator to replace Obama.

    NPR: Blagojevich Denies Guilt, Vows To Fight Charges

  • It took more than 20 minutes to actually tell him that they were not going to accept his money and that the meeting was off.

    FORBES: Why Wouldn't Planned Parenthood Take $500,000?

  • That was the last time I saw him, the day he came for his money, and he had a dark, set look to his eyes that frightened me a little.

    NEWYORKER: Something Like Happy

  • Few people believe Jefri will go to jail, but many think the government will grind him down until he signs over his properties and returns as much money as he can.

    CNN: 'Everyone Was Shocked'

  • When Grant went downtown the next morning his son told him that Ward -- and the money -- had vanished and that both Marine National and their own firm were bankrupt.

    WSJ: Pyramid Schemes Are as American as Apple Pie

  • Her strategy was to drown out the campaign of Jerry Brown, a former governor and current attorney-general but a pauper by comparison, with constant and ubiquitous attack ads, forcing him either to spend his money early or to leave her attacks unanswered.

    ECONOMIST: The California governor's race

  • Landau and Rotlevy, of recruiting Meir Abergil to pressure Mr. Shukrun out of his shares and money he says they owed him.

    WSJ: Big Gas Find Sparks a Frenzy in Israel

  • Most of the money managed by his hedge fund belongs to him and there was little chance of him being able to lure new investors into the fund.

    FORBES: Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Phil Falcone's Sweet Deal With The SEC

  • Several Girl Scout Troops (they didn't know him at all) near us have raised money for his family and planted a tree in Erwin's honor....he so loved trees.

    CNN: [Erwin L. Erker]

  • The money allowed him to ramp up his data system and hire a few people, like the nurse practitioner and the social worker who had helped him with Hendricks.

    NEWYORKER: The Hot Spotters

  • His career in politics had a mini-peak in 1983-86 when he was a junior trade and industry spokesman, followed by semi-retirement until Mr Blair picked him for his job in May as a man who understood money and was, besides, a family friend, happy to lend the Blairs the odd holiday home.

    ECONOMIST: The hounding of Geoffrey Robinson

  • Fearon told police that he had last seen Mr Kershaw on 1 October when he paid some money into a bank for him and had not been to his home since.

    BBC: Vincent Kershaw death: Michael Fearon jailed for murder

  • So the mayor allows the Corporation to put up all its office blocks, which provides him with the money to fulfil his electoral promises of more social housing and accommodation for key workers.

    ECONOMIST: Local government

  • Most intriguingly for them, they know what he sounds like as an audio recording was available of him explaining why he was donating - his principal motivation was money - and they thought he sounded like a nice person.

    BBC: Business booms for Danish sperm

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