Robust reported earnings growth at both Enron and WorldCom was not supported by hard cash.
It sounds like this science fiction is going to cost some people plenty of hard cash.
Much as investors enjoy a windfall, they also appreciate a steady stream of cold, hard cash.
Now there will have to be cold hard cash changing hands to accompany that bad smell.
Of course, a lot of the return from these companies is not in cold, hard cash.
People are paying cold hard cash on the spot to have their basements drained.
Russia is the second nest of Android loving cybercriminals, and they are more interested in cold hard cash.
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LinkedIn will remain my favorite social media vehicle because I prefer cold, hard cash any day to being cool.
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It would have cost Anglo American hard cash to retain its controlling stake.
Block the country's hard cash from illicit trade and cut off food aid.
They have been creatively effective online, parlaying their passion into cold hard cash for Paul's campaign and raising his profile.
Many Chinese businesses maintain close trading relationships with North Korea, giving the country access to vital commodities and hard cash.
It sounds, significantly, as though Wales wasn't necessarily outbid in terms of cold hard cash to bring the plant here.
Rather than smelting the imperial eggs for precious metals, Josef Stalin secretly sold the majority for hard cash to salvage the Soviet economy.
Older politicians in rural seats still practise trusted methods, securing a hard vote with hard cash channelled through a network of personal connections.
In the wider aim of turning such knowledge into hard cash, however, it was nowhere near as successful as its financial backers had hoped.
For example if every vote was worth hard cash would parties be so ready to stand aside from certain seats on a tactical basis?
But there are proven techniques here, and you too can qualify for tons of free food, fuel and, with a bit of finesse, pay-offs in hard cash.
In the long run, this grand project should save banks billions, if only because their customers will feel less need to carry hard cash.
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For the average freight hauler, or construction company for that matter, in China, each equipment purchase must be paid for upfront, in cold, hard cash.
The Campanile, like other posh co-ops in New York, will only take 100% cold hard cash for the privilege of owning shares in the building.
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Several charities have set up the logistics and special deals to turn the old money into hard cash, and hope for an extra euro windfall.
Impoverished North Korea is widely accused of engaging in a range of illicit activities to raise hard cash, including drug smuggling, currency counterfeiting and arms trafficking.
For most countries in the developing world, though, there is one thing even more important than hard cash: access to the markets of the rich countries.
Given the tighter credit hurdles potential homebuyers must jump through to acquire mortgages these days, hard cash is accounting for more and more home purchases.
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Those savings may take some time to filter through into hard cash and it may be that the government could fill the gap to allow an immediate pay rise.
In the heyday of Russian oil discoveries and rising energy demand, Russia would rake in quite a profit, filling its government coffers with cold hard cash from its energy windfall.
In the case of former KPMG audit partner Scott London the answer is apparently a fancy watch, a few concert outings, some free dinners and the old standby, cold hard cash.
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