Word: jillion
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...best teams in baseball. And not merely the two best teams but two paradigms of the modern baseball-world order. The Yankees, with the game's highest payroll, are rich because they're in New York. The Braves, fifth highest, are rich because they're owned by a giant, jillion-dollar media company (the same one, Time Warner Inc., that owns this magazine...
...pilots gave until it hurt then," he says, "and the executives made a jillion dollars when Northwest got healthier. Now it's doing very well, and the labor contracts are up, and the pilots want their pound of flesh." To Northwest, says Saporito, the pilots are "overpaid prima donnas who already got their fair share." Clearly, there are no white hats in this one -- just a lot of native South Dakotans with no way to get home for Labor Day (OK, several native South Dakotans). "Northwest's regional monopoly may force Clinton to intervene," says Saporito. Until then, the money...