After all, she lives in an affluent neighborhood and has a house on the Shenandoah River, which she bought for cash.

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That is for a single-family residence bought for cash.

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In Russia BP is now teamed up with Rosneft which bought its stake in TNK-BP in exchange for cash and a 20% equity stake and will seek to deploy its shale-cracking technology there.

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Brown bought the 5-ton monument, paying for it with cash and two peculiar collectors' items: a Stradivarius violin and a silver Newport yachting trophy from the 1920s.

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By all accounts, Pakistan bought North Korean nuclear-capable missiles in the early 1990s for cash.

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The producer moved in, and I took a little chunk of cash, left the rest for her, and bought a ticket to Bangkok.

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In one brilliant stroke Microsoft dipped into its growing overseas cash pile, bought an iconic brand and set the stage for another multibillion-dollar business.

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Mr Negi has found 14 companies which would have more cash in the bank, after repaying their debts, than they could be bought for at today's share prices.

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Back in Barnsley and York that undoubted success story is cold comfort to two cash-strapped local councils paying millions for property they thought the taxpayer had already bought.

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For sure, many who bought Clearwire at its last offering at the end of 2011 were happy to just cash out and have moved on beyond all this drama.

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