Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Whether it was a conspiracy to frighten or a conspiracy to kill, it was badly botched," he said. The judge also made the point that the testimony of the three principal prosecution witnesses was "tainted" by the huge sums of money that each had received for telling his story to the British press. Bessell admitted on the stand that his contract for serialization of portions of a book he is writing called for twice as much ($100,000) if Thorpe were convicted. By the judge's reckoning, Scott was paid $31,000 by newspaper and television companies, and Newton...
...institutions of industrialized nations. Much of this money was loaned to the hard-pressed developing countries to help them pay their ever heavier oil bills. The international banking system came through that operation in much better shape than many of the pessimists believed possible, though the amounts involved were huge...
...sudden move, a Tehran court handed down a ten-day injunction blocking further payments to General Telephone & Electronics, which has been drawing down a huge letter of credit for services rendered on a $700 million project to modernize Iran's telephone system. A team of GTE negotiators had believed they were making progress toward an amicable settlement. But then GTE's local client, state-owned Telecommunications Company of Iran, sued to halt payments on the outstanding credit to GTE worth $194 million, charging that the company had installed inoperative equipment...
...during which Japanese automakers zipped past it in many major markets. Detroit executives point out that Volkswagen, which is the most firmly established foreign automaker in the U.S., does not need Chrysler's dealer network or antiquated plants. Most of all, VW does not need Chrysler's huge unsold inventory of big autos that could become the albatrosses of the gasless summer...
...other direction on Mass Ave you can find the spot Peter Cottontail drops off super-rich Haagen-Dazs ice cream, at Uncle Bunny's. Despite its name, the store is not geared to kids or cornballs, and its sundaes are huge and luscious...