Word: megabuck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...uproar over the guy who left his intended bride in the lurch [ESSAY, Dec. 8], we must note that this nonevent was not an ordinary wedding. It was a megabuck marriage right up there with a corporate takeover. Perhaps the wayward groom decided that the cost of trading in his Porsche for a Ferrari was too high. Hardly anything to concern the masses. If the jilted wealthy bride really wants to get married, she can run an HEIRESS SEEKS HUSBAND ad, or tour Europe interviewing studs. When she finds the right man, she can mold him into her very...
...adventures, he was also busy with Berlin, Cuba, Vietnam, nuclear disarmament, the moon shot, racial upheavals and the American economy. Hersh and his fraternity of investigative reporters have served this nation well. But there is a dark side even in their business, particularly in our age of star-driven, megabuck contracts in books and television...
With its Green Monster, quirky outfield, antiquated left-field scoreboard and famous bleacher seats, Fenway is perhaps more baseball than baseball itself--possessing an aura of authenticity shaming modern megabuck parks like Toronto's SkyDome and Baltimore's pseudo baseball-ish Camden Yards...
...labs.Still, the wisdom and enthusiasm of the professorswas astounding. I took E.O. Wilson's course onevolutionary biology. "you know," he said during alecture on reproduction, "each ejaculationproduces a hundred million or so sperm. you arethe product of a sperm that beat out millions ofothers--kind of like a genetic megabuck winner...
...Bruins had a quiet summer. Ray Borque and Bruin Coach Mike Milbury got gypped out of the MVP and Coach of the Year awards. Borque and Cam Neely signed megabuck contracts. Otherwise, blissful peace...