What is "straughn"

Usage examples of "straughn".

That's twenty billion dollars, just to put it in perspective for you, twenty percent of my negotiated budget with Straughn before a single payload left the ground.

I don't know how much Straughn is worth personally, but the investment fund he controls totals a cool trillion.

Power, like money, is difficult to judge on large scales, but by any measure Straughn is on top worldwide.

When Straughn decides something is impossible its only a matter of time before he makes it happen.

I'd surprised him with a figure that big, but Straughn didn't get where he was by being afraid of big numbers.

A nine-billion-dollar performance bond wasn't out of line for what Straughn was delivering, but it represented nearly half of everything I owned.

I would have rather waited a year, but my own financial structures were in place, and my sources told me that the Seaveni consortium was about to hit Straughn up for absolutely every penny he could swing.

While I was doing that I put five years into making contact with the high-end venture capital club, insinuating myself into their social network, setting up the structures I'd need and carefully profiling over two dozen top-of-the-line players before I'd settled on Straughn as my primary patsy.

I told her about Straughn and the nine-billion-dollar performance bond I'd just agreed to.

Three months of the six I'd told Straughn the drive development would take had vanished and I hadn't noticed.

I already had Straughn as committed as he could be on the space mining deal.

If I halted construction I'd spook Straughn, and if not Straughn the backers he had behind him—I couldn't risk that.

If I failed to deliver on this deal I'd never get Straughn behind me again—or anyone else in his rarefied world.

Yes we were building a fusion drive, no it wasn't a weapon, yes Douglas Straughn was involved, no the Chinese weren't, yes I had talked to the Russians about the use of their boosters, and no, most certainly it was not so I could launch biological weapons at Washington, yes I had a deal going with Georgi Stanislaski, no I wasn't aware he dealt with Azerbaijani rebels, yes I was building a unique launch facility in Mexico, and no, it wasn't for launching biological weapons at Washington either.