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The company — whose payouts may have been placating shareholders who were tired of a tech stock that has done little for several years — still has $52.1 billion in cash.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2014

The agent who spoke in apparent confirmation of Salem may, FBI sources hopefully suggest, simply have been placating a volatile informant who was overstating his case.

From Time Magazine Archive