It comes as MPs begin a fresh attempt to clean-up the lobbying industry in the wake of a string of cash-for-influence scandals.
They invest from ten to a hundred strings of cash, and regularly make profits of several hundred percent'.
However, Chancellor Wanyan Xiang convinced the emperor of the walls' merits based on an optimistic cost estimate – "Although the initial outlay for the walls will be one million strings of cash, when the work is done the frontier will be secure with only half the present number of soldiers needed to defend it, which means that every year you will save three million strings of cash .
He wrote that it saved the work of five hundred annual labors, annual costs of up to 1,250,000 strings of cash, and increased the size limit of boats accommodated from 21 tons/21000 kg to 113 tons/115000 kg.
Shen Kuo wrote that the establishment of pound lock gates at Zhenzhou (presumably Kuozhou along the Yangtze) during the Tian Sheng reign period (1023 1031) freed up the use of five hundred working laborers at the canal each year, amounting to the saving of up to 1,250,000 strings of cash annually.
After a string of strong quarters, cash-rich corporations in markets like Brazil and China are now bargain-hunting for established brands in developed markets.
'Lots of the robbers I've worked with think that once the job is done, that's the end of it,' said Terry Smith who, in the mid-Eighties, was briefly Britain's most wanted man, after a string of raids on cash-in-transit vans.
TechCrunch editor Matthew Panzarino's name yielded a string of emoji hearts, a stack of cash, the mischievous ghost emoji and a couple of flags (neither of them American).
Snaring borrowers by turning a short-term lack of cash into a string of unaffordable loans "is the core of the payday loan business model," Bourke said.
Cisco's $3 billion purchase marked the latest in a string of acquisitions for the cash-rich company.
Al Qaeda offered amateurs dedicated to destruction at any cost a source of cash with no strings attached.
