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That's it, Mr. Brown. Big-business sports is leaving disaster for the fans. Multibillion dollar television contracts, and million-dollar players are driving sports into skyrocketing financial straits...
...prove crucial in determining whether the Sadat initiative can be rescued and Sadat can survive politically. For the second year in a row, an international financial consortium made up of the U.S., Saudi Arabia, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and several European countries has agreed to a multibillion-dollar aid package covering Egypt's foreign-currency needs. Though that will allow Sadat to import enough wheat to keep his people fed, they still hunger for the peace-borne prosperity he has led them to expect. Says one White House official...
...generally accepted, in fact, that the Navy must become a better manager of its multibillion-dollar shipbuilding effort, if for no other reason than that the current mess has seriously hurt the service's case for more vessels. Edward ("Randy") Jayne, of the Office of Management and Budget, bluntly warned some of the Navy's top officers at a recent conference: "If you remember nothing else, please remember this. The present shipbuilding difficulties represent in my view the single most influential reason why President Carter chose not to accelerate Navy ship purchases in the 1979 budget...
...save us all. Remember that Franklin Roosevelt back in 1939 read a letter from the little man with the funny hair and began the atomic bomb. And one afternoon shortly before the Bay of Pigs in 1961, John Kennedy brushed aside the warnings that a moon shot was a multibillion-dollar, decade-long gamble that might fail. Such decisions dwarf the squabbles of politicians...
...past three years, the smuggling of drugs from Latin America has become Florida's growth industry, a multibillion-dollar business involving private airlines and speedboats, Mafia connections and high-priced lawyers. Arrayed against them is the collective might of the U.S. Customs Service, the Coast Guard and the Drug Enforcement Administration, as well as local lawmen. The good guys are clearly losing the battle. Last year Feds in the Southeast seized roughly 1.4 million lbs. of marijuana, with a street value of $420 million, and 533 lbs. of cocaine worth $133 million. But perhaps ten times that amount...