So, they could practically do the deal themselves and pay it back in 4 quarters of operation from cash flow.

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Meanwhile, O.tel.o's cable TV business (second, after Deutsche Telekom's CATV operation) is cash-flow positive.

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Companies also do it when they need to create a "group treasury operation" so money can flow between their different parts all around the world.

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Could you tell me what is the exact date that the President learned about the Justice Department ATF operation to allow guns to flow into Mexico?

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Authorities have said the operation was intended to track the flow of illegally purchased American guns to the Mexican cartels, but in practice, ATF agents allowed so-called straw buyers to take weapons across the border without being intercepted.

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Exclusive Resorts and Private Retreats have each had a positive cash flow from their first day of operation.

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Qteros and Praj will ask for an up-front licensing fee and then a percentage of the cash flow, a kind of royalty, from the ongoing operation.

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The experienced team of spin-doctors installed this summer to cover the salvage operation is headed by Sergei Yastrzhembsky, a Kremlin press officer famous for blocking the flow of information from Chechnya for the first 15 months of fighting there.

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Unfortunately, the flow of such sensitive Western information will not be limited to that involving the design and operation of modern space launch systems.

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