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Word: milliones (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blimps and antennas are all very nice, but they are mere baubles compared with Houston-based rival Sakowitz's "ultimate gift" selections for this holiday season. Sakowitz is the store that in 1975 offered a bathtub full of diamonds for a cool $153 million. In 1974, they enticed Christmas shoppers with a Boeing 747 for $27 million, a 727 for $9.25 million and a 707 for $11 million...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: All I Want for Christmas......Is A Blimp or Two | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...federal government will ask the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for a refund of $7 million it loaned the state to build a criminal records computer because the project has not been completed...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Feds Will Ask State to Return Loans; LEAA Charges Crime Funds Misspent | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

Saken said he was currently applying the remainder of the last LEAA loan and the $1.9 million the state had appropriated to help program the computer, adding he could not estimate when the computer would be completed...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Feds Will Ask State to Return Loans; LEAA Charges Crime Funds Misspent | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

Dyslexia, a reading disorder affecting 10 to 15 million Americans, most commonly causes "reverse reading," the frequent confusion of letters such as "d," "p" and "b" and words like...

Author: By Marc J. Jenkins, | Title: Researchers Combat Dyslexia, Herpes | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

...growing pollution of the Great Lakes was not only an aesthetic and commercial tragedy. More than 29 million Americans and 9 million Canadians (more than a third of Canada's population) live in the Great Lakes basin. The lakes contain 95% of the U.S. supply of fresh water in lakes and reservoirs and 20% of the world's; they supply drinking water for 23.5 million Americans. Clearly, something had to be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Comeback for the Great Lakes | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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