Word: dollar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home near Palermo by a machine-gun-toting gang of ski-masked Mafiosi. A kidnaping is no surprise in Italy. It has become such a way of life since 1970 that police now freeze the assets of the victim's family in an effort to prevent payoffs. Million-dollar ransoms are routine. But this case rocked Palermo; it is not honorable to involve women in such matters, and the victim's husband, Contractor Giuseppe Quartuccio, 66, was known to have Mafia connections...
...economy resembles a car whose battery is running down in the winter cold. It clearly needs a new charge from the incoming Carter Administration-but how much amperage should be poured in? Last week some dollar numbers emerged from separate meetings between Carter and his transition staff, and the incoming President and chief executives of 15 giant companies, including Ford Motor Chairman Henry Ford II and DuPont Chairman Irving Shapiro. The President-elect's advisers were somewhat more modest than the businessmen. In effect, they called for $20 billion in tax cuts and spending increases, while the corporate chiefs...
Wherever you go, however you go, the important thing is to enjoy yourself at a sport that doesn't require ten-dollar lift tickets, two hour rides in search of "skiable snow," or equipment that would bankrupt the U.S. Treasury...
...trial that had everything -indeed, too much of everything. There was a lanky young heir to a multimillion-dollar fortune as the central figure in a murky kidnaping plot, a desperate defendant charging that the whole caper had been an elaborate fake, and there were allegations about a homosexual liaison carried out in locales ranging from the pool-house of a secluded suburban estate to gay bars in Manhattan...
...networks were concerned about ratings when I was working in TV in the '50s, but the condition has been seriously aggravated. If I were in control of a network, I think I would be satisfied with a mere million-dollar profit instead of a 150 million-dollar profit. I would supply on prime time a healthy chunk of beauty and commitment. I think the American people deserve some truth-at least as much truth as we can give them-instead of pure entertainment or pure addiction...