Ensconced in a sparsely populated area the size of Switzerland, the FARC proceeded to increase coca production, stockpile arms and drive out local authorities.
The company will use the proceeds to increase capital at some subsidiaries, it said in a press release.
Yahoo, a troubled Internet media company, plans to use the proceeds to increase shareholder value, principally by buying back a large number of shares.
Venezuela's economy grew more than 10percentt for a second straight quarter in the April-to-June period as President Hugo Chávez tapped into surging oil proceeds to increase government spending.
Some said that the Legislature could simply rewrite the law, removing the provisions that called for using part of the proceeds to increase the size of the purses at races and to support horse breeding efforts in the state.
RBS is also selling some of its non-British loan portfolio as it tries to shrink its balance sheet and use the proceeds to increase UK lending, the banker said.
In return for this cheap financing, banks would be required to commit to using the proceeds to increase the volume of loans to businesses and households, and to make that lending cheaper than it otherwise would have been.
DreamWorks SKG, the studio behind the "Shrek" movies, announced on Wednesday that it planned to sell as much as $650 million in stock in its animation division, and will use the proceeds to increase its film production schedule and improve its competitive position with both the Walt Disney Company and Pixar Animation Studios.
"In response to our concerns that revenue-sharing proceeds have not been used as required, the Marlins have assured the union and the commissioner's office that they plan to use such proceeds to increase player payroll annually as they move toward the opening of their new ballpark," Michael Weiner, the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, said in a statement.
Indiana has used the proceeds to increase its roadbuilding budget by a third, to $1 billion a year.Bob McDonnell, the governor of Virginia, is confronting the gradual decline in revenue raised by the state's gas tax, which is levied on top of the federal one and suffers from the same problems.
