Mr. Madoff's agents next cut a cash-gathering swath through the Persian Gulf, then Southeast Asia.
Murphy has already proved his cash-gathering skills; he says he raised more than $25 million during his 8-year tenure at the Montreal Neurological Institute.
A decision in favor of Shaun McCutcheon, the lead plaintiff in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, to be argued Oct. 8, could vastly increase the joint fundraising committee's cash-gathering capacity.
Governor's mansions provide an ideal perch for training campaign teams, raising cash and gathering executive experience.
The 10 finalists, who had come through the district and regional competitions gathering cash prizes along the way and had been chosen from among 23 semifinalists two weeks ago at the Met, were over all an impressive group.
As a way of gathering cash and gaining local power, he lets it be understood that he may be a notorious gunslinger (he wears no gun, but modesty is potent, too).
When you don't have unlimited resources, or at least lots of cash sitting around, gathering as much information as possible about the market, the seller's motivations and other buyers you're competing against could give you a leg up in the bidding process.
In the capital, although bicycles and charming old European cars dot the roads and the ambitious Italian colonial-era architecture is well preserved, more than a dozen people said they were desperately gathering cash to pay for sigre dob (border crossing).
Meanwhile, in this arid economic environment, costs must be cut, so it is hard to justify huge outlays of cash for news gathering operations that drag down profits -- which is one reason CBS News is discussing a possible operational merger with CNN (and why ABC News has let CNN know it might be interested in striking such an arrangement, too, a development reported by the Web site Inside.com).
