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.

Don't you see the amount of money that has been invested by whites around that church??

Returns for money and labor invested may be small even in a good year.

To figure the value of the farm in terms of investment income, divide the estimated annual net farm income by the percentage that you could expect to get in interest if the money were invested in some other way.

The money was invested in a government bond which provided if not a lavish then certainly a comfortable income which allowed the Pascal family to move to, and enjoy, Paris.

The most widely used method of discounting is exponential discounting, which values future cash flows as " how much money would have to be invested currently, at a given rate of return, to yield the cash flow in future.

If he hadn't put his money into buying the house, he could have invested it in the relatively safe T-Notes instead.

* Financial capital — This is simply the amount of money the initiator of the business has invested in it.

A hurdle is intended to ensure that a manager is only rewarded if the fund generates returns in excess of the returns that the investor would have received if they had invested their money elsewhere.

Business transfers may include profits sent by a foreign subsidiary to a parent company or money invested by a business in a foreign country.

As for efforts to found the Smithsonian Institution, the money was invested in shaky state bonds, which quickly defaulted.

Entertaining Mr Sloane lost money in its three-week run, but critical praise from playwright Terence Rattigan, who invested £ 3, 000 in it, ensured its survival.

Unlike with The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays, Baum invested none of his own money in the venture, but the stress probably took its toll on his health.

* Absorption of similar businesses under single management: similar portfolio invested by two different mutual funds namely united money market fund and united growth and income fund, caused the management to absorb united money market fund into united growth and income fund.

Cook invested his own money and solicited investment from his friends.

He wrote The Wealth of Nations, in which he argued that wealth was not money in itself, but wealth was derived from the added value in manufactured items produced by both invested capital and labour.

At the time, many users had already invested considerable money in Adobe's still proprietary Type 1 fonts.

The French invested huge amounts of money and resources in building an invasion fleet.

In general, this money is used to fund the activities of the scientific societies that run such journals, or is invested in providing further scholarly resources for scientists ; thus, the money remains in and benefits the scientific sphere.

Deborah Cadbury says that she invested with a conman who swindled her and disappeared with the money, but Shelley Emling writes that is not clear whether the man ran off with the money or whether he died suddenly leaving Anning with no way to recover the investment.

But with so much invested in buildings, little money remained for books or administration … Putnam took the matter up directly with the War Department and obtained assurances that the government would provide utilities.

Its also possible to buy and sell derivitives that are based on the secondary market ; one of the most common being contract for difference-these can provide rapid profits, but can also cause buyers to lose more money than they originally invested.

Some nations such as India have also used capital controls to ensure that their citizen's money is invested at home, rather than abroad.

The lifetime cost is composed of materials, labor, machinery, engineering, cost of money, insurance, maintenance, refurbishment, and ultimately, demolition and associated disposal, recycling, and replacement, less the value of scrap and reuse of components.

Similarly, the spread of money economy stimulated the replacement of labour services by money payments, but the growth of the money supply and resulting inflation after 1170 initially led nobles to take back leased estates and to re-impose labour dues as the value of fixed cash payments declined in real terms.

The " Phoenix appeal " raised money to build a new church and the replacement structure, designed by Larry Malcic with an all-glass spire, was opened in 1996.

His replacement, Chaney Phillips, served for only a year before he was convicted for fraud and money laundering that he committed while the parish assessor.

He seems to have been a very kind character, though, as when he realised his oversight, he did his best to make amends by providing the hobbits with assorted bedding materials ( to set up decoys for the pursuing Nazgûl ) and money ( to buy a replacement pony after all of theirs are let loose from the stables ).

Both these groups ( those who advocate the replacement of fractional-reserve banking with debt-free government-issued fiat, and those who support the issuance of repayable interest-free credit from a government-owned central bank ) see the provision of interest-free money as a way of freeing the working populace from the bonds of " debt slavery " and facilitating a transformation of the economy away from environmentally damaging consumerism and towards sustainable economic policies and environment-friendly business practices.

At a local bar, where a fundraiser was held for the Willingham family, he placed an order for a replacement set, stating that " money was not a problem now ".

With no time or money to find a replacement, the producers cast a real police attack dog that was so vicious and unpredictable that no actors could appear with it on camera.

Many anarchists advocate the abolition of money, others call for its replacement with new currency systems, and others, such as Benjamin Tucker and Murray Rothbard, simply want the end of the government money monopoly and the repeal of legal tender laws, i. e. they want competition between private banks and currencies.

* Anti-tank helicopters reduce opposing tank numbers, and rather effectively too ; it is better to buy 50 anti-tank helicopters than to buy the replacement tanks for the same money.

The original concept of the series surrounding a " James Bond "- like defense attorney could not be salvaged with a replacement lead-not least of which because LaPaglia's character spent most episodes trying to borrow money to keep the firm afloat.

In the Family Stone, Rizzo was intended as a replacement for founding member Jerry Martini, who got into trouble with Sly Stone and his accountants for inquiring about money rightfully due him, but both Martini and Rizzo remained in the band and became good friends.

The glamorous passenger services made little money for the railroads, but replacement of steam engines with reliable diesel units could help railroads save money in a money-losing service.

The competition was created by CONMEBOL to generate TV money to the participating teams, but it went beyond and ended up, together with the Copa Merconorte, as natural replacement to the CONMEBOL Cup.

However, when Tracy leaves to visit her stepbrother Peter ( Chris Gascoyne ) indefinitely, Blanche sells the house, using the money for a private operation for a hip replacement in Poland as the NHS waiting list is too long.