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OPINION: It's Time for Corporations to Stop Paying Danegeld. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (5/16/2004)
...attacking you. Tenth century England paid Danegeld to buy off its Viking invaders -- who...Today, companies pay their environmental Danegeld with vast glossy brochures showing how...planet. And they pay their stakeholder Danegeld by agreeing to consult everyone imaginable...

Probably the heaviest tax in the world.(Features) The Birmingham Post (England) (1/24/2008)
...this kind of thing. They called it "Danegeld", and from that point onwards the English...mints (mostly silver pennies) went in Danegeld. Not surprisingly, then, if you...picked up on this fact in a poem called Danegeld: But we've proved it again and again...

'Success' in N. Korea will fail in long run Chicago Sun-Times (2/20/2007)
...And that is called paying the Danegeld; But we've proved it again and...That if once you have paid him the Danegeld You never get rid of the Dane...the United States -- i.e., Danegeld. Is it really that simple? No...

TONY PARSONS: WE'LL ALL PAY FOR RANSOM.(Features) The Mirror (London, England) (10/4/2004)
...tried to bribe Danish invaders into peace: And that is called paying the Danegeld, But we've proved it again and again, That if once you have paid him the Danegeld, You never get rid of the Dane. Buying off terrorists is gutless, stupid...

The Yongbyon test. (North Korea delays inspection of nuclear reactor in Yongbyon) (Editorial) The Economist (US) (6/4/1994)
...fuel rods in Yongbyon beyond the bounds of checkability. The Danegeld option is even more desperate. This holds that a large enough...is also about the power of example. If Mr Kim is given his Danegeld, next year's planned attempt to extend the non-proliferation...

Facts the favourite. Birmingham Evening Mail (England) (2/23/1999)
...Foster (7) 2-1 fav (W Halliday) 14 ran FORECAST: 7-2 Danegeld, 4-1 Mullingar Con, Press To Sting, 9-2 Hopies Delight...Cottage, 12-1 Triple Eaves, 16-1 others. FORM GUIDE: DANEGELD - 9-2 (12-0) 2nd of 13, 1 1/2l behind Concerto Collonges...

Euro propagandists lose the plot. Sunday Business (London, England) (8/6/2000)
...game over its Sunderland plant. The temptation for ministers, especially with a general election looming, is to pay the Danegeld and then claim credit with voters for securing their jobs. With such a high international profile, motor giants always grab...

Global growth in one place. Investors Chronicle - magazine and web content (4/26/2010)
...commodity stocks, mindful of the risk that a slowdown in China could hit raw materials exports to that part of the world. Danegeld His focus on long-term out performance, looking to lower real risk with a view to better returns, has resulted in high...

The democratic threat to capitalism.(Critical essay) Daedalus (6/22/2007)
...sustained and perpetual growth, on an expected and continuous improvement.... Its favored mode of social control is universal Danegeld, buying off social aggression with material enhancement; its greatest weakness is its inability to survive any temporary...

AMs' 'gravy plane' LETTERS.(Letters) Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) (5/13/2010)
...trough, they naturally seek other ways to revel with our money. We were made to bail out the 2010 Faenol festival (more danegeld for Plaid?) It, therefore, is to be expected we should also pay for suitable (ie. extravagant) transport. If our masters...

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