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...compact disc sets, but those copies sold so fast that the stores have ordered 1.85 million more. Since the 40-song package sells for $20 to $30, vs. about $8 to $10 for a typical record or tape, Springsteen Live is expected to bring in more revenues?perhaps $450 million???than any other album ever recorded...
...anyway, no longer rare. Among the 4 million to 5 million Americans who regularly (at least monthly) use cocaine, drug counselors estimate that 5% to 20%?at least 200,000, perhaps 1 million???are now profoundly dependent on cocaine, a new corps as numerous as heroin addicts...
...spent weekends on a $3.5 million, 430-acre estate in rural New Jersey, an hour from Manhattan. They also own a lush 48-acre spread in California's San Diego County; it has been on the market for $4 million, and last week the price was raised to $5 million???the amount of De Lorean's bail...
Vesco's emissaries tenaciously tried a new approach. Herring went to Attorney W. Spencer Lee IV of Albany, Ga., and offered him a $10,000 retainer?in addition to a fee of $1 million???if he would set up a meeting with top White House Aide Hamilton Jordan, a school chum and tennis companion of Lee's. Vesco meanwhile told Herring and Dorminey that he would arrange for them to acquire $10 million worth of stock in a Panamanian company for $42,000, if they could get to somebody at the White House on his behalf...
...cash in on the action, the London auction firms of Christie's and Phillips, along with French Dealer Didier Aaron, opened branches in Manhattan last year. Since opening in May, Christie's reaped sales of $20 million???50% over original projections. Sotheby Parke Bernet reports that sales for the past four months were $43.7 million, up 53% over last year...