They might kill him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the house.

It was payday for Highlands, and he was packing a lot of money back into the oil fields.

He himself had heard that there was gangster money in the company, but that had nothing to do with him.

`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??

So if all these beers was to get me in bed, man, you just spent a lot of money ''.

nor was she moved by a letter from Wright pointing out that if he was not `` compelled to spend money on useless lawyer's bills, useless hotel bills, and useless doctor's bills '', he could more quickly provide Miriam with a suitable home either in Los Angeles or Paris, as she preferred.

Although his tender nights were not the ones I dreamed of, nor was it for yachts, sports cars, tall drinks, and swimming pools, nor yet for money or what money buys that I burned, I too was burning and watching myself burn.

Hearst had spent more than $60,000 of his own money in the probe, but still Attorney General Knox was quiescent.

Platoons of Hearst agents were traveling from state to state in a surprisingly successful search for delegates at the coming convention, and there were charges that money was doing a large part of the persuading.

Another Indiana observer later commented, `` Perhaps we shall never know how much was spent ( by Hearst ), but if as much money was expended elsewhere as in Indiana a liberal fortune was squandered ''.

So what Fred and Ralph did was to attempt to prorate the money fairly by taking into account what each of the five had received, if anything, from the estate before Papa's death.

It is doubtful if Morgan was able to take home much money to his wife and children, for his pay, as shown by the War Department Abstracts of early 1778 was $75 a month as a colonel, and that apt to be delayed.

It was not merely a hunger for `` money, gold and precious objects '' that delayed the papal pronouncement that could have brought the war to an end ; ;

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

He was a captain, he said, in the army, and on the train to New York his purse and all his money had been stolen, and would I lend him twenty-five dollars to be given him at the General Delivery window??

Every man who dabbles in the market to make a little easy money on the side and suffers losses could at the time hardly face his wife who was wondering how her husband could be so dumb.

With most of his money tied up in the Indians, Veeck was forced to sell the team to a syndicate headed by insurance magnate Ellis Ryan.

He tied individual officers to him by controlling their promotion and the flow of money for payrolls.

" Financial capital " often refers to his or her net worth tied up in the business ( assets minus liabilities ) but the phrase often includes money borrowed from others.

The appearance of the European guilds was tied to the emergent money economy, and to urbanization.

The nation immediately cooperated with the U. S, freezing accounts tied to suspected terrorists and strongly clamping down on money laundering.

Such costs include warehousing fees and interest forgone on money tied up, less income from leasing out the commodity if possible ( e. g. gold ).

FIFO and LIFO Methods are accounting techniques used in managing inventory and financial matters involving the amount of money a company has tied up within inventory of produced goods, raw materials, parts, components, or feed stocks.

In addition to the money tied up by acquiring inventory, inventory also brings associated costs for warehouse space, for utilities, and for insurance to cover staff to handle and protect it from fire and other disasters, obsolescence, shrinkage ( theft and errors ), and others.

She carried most of her money (£ 200 in English bank notes and gold in total as well as some American currency ) in a bag tied around her neck.

He is a wealthy man, but his money is all tied up in property which he hangs on to in spite of impending financial hardship.

Rottweilers were said to have been used by traveling butchers at markets during the Middle Ages to guard money pouches tied around their necks.

Where currency is under a monopoly of issuance, or where there is a regulated system of issuing currency through banks which are tied to a central bank, the monetary authority has the ability to alter the money supply and thus influence the interest rate ( to achieve policy goals ).

Where currency is under a monopoly of issuance, or where there is a regulated system of issuing currency through banks which are tied to a central bank, the monetary authority has the ability to alter the money supply and thus influence the interest rate ( to achieve policy goals ).

Le Queux was eager to help Baird with his television experiments but said that all his money was tied up in Switzerland.

Northern Rock borrowed up to £ 20 billion from the Bank of England, and Darling was criticised for becoming sucked into a position where so much public money was tied up in a private company.

The loose ends are tied up when Ray Barboni comes to Los Angeles looking for the money Palmer collected from Leo Devoe, only to find the key to the locker from the failed drug deal in one of Palmer's pockets.

This premium compensates investors for the added risk of having their money tied up for a longer period, including the greater price uncertainty.

During the Chinese New Year, lion dancer troupes from the Chinese martial art schools or Chinese guild and associations will visit the houses and shops of the Chinese community to perform the traditional custom of " cai ching " ( 採青 ), literally means " plucking the greens ", a quest by the ' lion ' to pluck the auspicious green normally ' vegetables ' like lettuce which in Chinese called ' cái '( 菜 ) that sound like ' cái '( 财 )( fortune ) and auspicious fruit like oranges tied to a " Red Envelope " containing money ; either hang highly or just put on a table in front of the premises.

Gary, who had tied up all his money in Tidal Energy, was left bankrupt.

But he makes the mistake of informing Helen of his plans ; she and Barnes take the money and leave him, tied up and gagged, in a utility room at the airport.

He acquired it because of the Altmünster Convent ’ s fourth of the tithes that were tied to it, of which sometime earlier – the exact circumstances are still unclear – Heidesheim ’ s parish priest had been stripped by the Convent, which was furthermore towards the end of, or just after, the Thirty Years ' War – as almost always – in need of money.

Most of his money was tied up in the Indians, so he was forced to sell the team to fund the divorce settlement.

He had had them chromed and printed in 1958 ; being frugal, he built them in black tolex with a chrome and black Champ nameplate, as he had money tied up in them already.

The term Jallikattu comes from the term Salli Kaasu ( coins ) and Kattu ( meaning a package ) tied to the horns of the bulls as the prize money.

The respectability which money confers implies a different etiquette, and, upon taking up the life of a London gentleman, Pip must learn from Herbert Pocket that `` the spoon is not generally used over-hand, but under ''.

`` Diane is the type of girl '', Jelke said, `` who wouldn't get loving -- even on her wedding night -- unless you piled up all your money in the middle of the floor ''.

Then on Monday morning -- or it might have to be Tuesday -- get up and leave just the usual time, and last thing, put the money in an envelope under the old woman's purse there in the drawer.

To be Katharine Ross, and work in a nicer shop somewhere, at a little more money so she could have prettier clothes, and learn ladies' manners and all like that, and get to know different people than up to now, not just the ones like her here, with foreign-sounding names, the ones went to the same church and -- Different place, different job, different people, she'd be all different too.

The Georgia Legislature will wind up its 1961 session Monday and head for home -- where some of the highway bond money it approved will follow shortly.

The schools could use the money to pay 4-year scholarships, based on need, of up to $2,000 a year per student.

I kept saying, `` If I could just build up a reputation for myself, make some real money, get to be well known as an illustrator -- like Peter Askington, for instance -- then I could take some time off and paint ''.

Although Beavis and Butt-Head greatly admire him and aspire to join his " gang ," Todd despises the two and frequently beats them up and takes advantage of them when he needs something, such as money, food or a place to hide from other gangs or the police.

However, in " A Great Day " Todd does thank the duo for giving him some gas money, and he allows them to watch him beat up someone who bumped into his car.

Either she has sold herself into slavery for debt, or she is with a lover who demands money in order to give her up, because Hosea has to buy her back.

There was not enough money to put up more new buildings, and so the houses in the other streets are nearly all still standing.

Two months later, on 1 March 1978, Chaplin's coffin was dug up and stolen from its grave by two unemployed mechanics, Polish Roman Wardas and Bulgarian Gantcho Ganev, in an attempt to extort money from Chaplin's widow, Oona Chaplin.

In more recent years, they have stepped up the fight against money laundering, by limiting banking secrecy, introducing requirements for customer identification and record keeping, and requiring banks to cooperate with foreign investigators.

With coins, banknotes make up the cash form of all money.

Advocates such as Jane Jacobs argue that this enables an economically depressed region to pull itself up, by giving the people living there a medium of exchange that they can use to exchange services and locally produced goods ( In a broader sense, this is the original purpose of all money.

: They'd put up even money, now, with Casey at the bat.

* Record Attendance: 49, 335 v Millwall, 8 October 1938-Division Two ( attendances up until the 1970s were notorious for being inaccuarate with specatators sneaking in, or being hustled in for boot money )

In this way, jobs may be saved, the ( previously mismanaged ) engine of profitability which is the business is maintained ( presumably under better management ) rather than being dismantled, and, as a proponent of a chapter 11 plan is required to demonstrate as a precursor to plan confirmation, the business's creditors end up with more money than they would in a Chapter 7 liquidation.

In the present day, coins and banknotes make up currency, the cash forms of all modern money systems.

Though he spent some of his money trying to clean up swamps and eradicate malaria, he was nonetheless sent to the guillotine during the Reign of Terror as an enemy of the people.

To sum things up, the use of money in trading all goods ( capital / labor and consumer ) in all markets ( spot and financial ) combined with profit driven entrepreneurship and Darwinian natural selection in financial markets all combine to make rational economic calculation and allocation the outcome of the capitalist process.

Although he doled out offices, money, and titles mainly to Christian highlanders in the hope of co-opting would-be Eritrean opponents in early 1967, the imperial secret police of Ethiopia also set up a wide network of informants in Eritrea and conducted disappearances, intimidations and assassinations among the same populace driving several prominent political figures into exile.

Since reunification, the German government has spent vast amounts of money on reintegrating the two halves of the city and bringing services and infrastructure in the former East Berlin up to the standard established in West Berlin.