Word: multimillion
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...physician had not limited his practice to south of the border. Following a year's investigation, a San Diego grand jury indicted Contreras and six other Mexicans, one Canadian and eight Americans, as well as three Mexican firms, for peddling the contraband drug in the U.S. through a multimillion-dollar smuggling operation supplying some 10,000 cancer victims a day. It was the biggest crackdown yet against a drug that has a strong and persistent following even though, in the opinion of virtually all U.S. cancer specialists, it offers no real medical benefits...
Violation Charged. Bechtel has profitably worked in the Middle East for 32 years and now has several multimillion-dollar projects under way there. In January the Department of Justice sued Bechtel in a test case, asking that it be enjoined from obeying the boycott. The charge: by refusing to give work to blacklisted U.S. firms, the engineering company was restricting competition and thus violating the Sherman Act, the basic U.S. antitrust...
...Arabs strongly opposed the project. They doubted that they would ever move into new apartments, since Israel's history offers almost no examples of Arabs being welcomed into Jewish communities. Many Arabs suspected that the real motive of the multimillion-dollar project was to encourage Jewish settlement in Galilee. The area is now 48% Arab; since the Arabs have a birth rate twice that of Israeli Jews, they will soon become a majority. That fact has disturbing political implications for the Jews of the region, who have long urged the government to encourage Jewish settlement...
Paloma Picasso, who stands to inherit a sizable chunk of Father Pablo's multimillion dollar art fortune, may have felt less than flush when she agreed to appear in Immoral Tales back in 1973. The French-made, soft-core porn film casts Paloma, 26, as a 17th century Transylvanian countess who gets her kicks by bathing in the blood of virgins. Though given few lines to speak, Paloma appears nude, engages in a lesbian love scene and at one point bathes in a vat of genuine pig's blood. "I did not like the part...
...real business of the 25th congress* will take place not before a backdrop reminiscent of Boris Godunov but in the 6,000-seat auditorium of the Palace of Congresses, a hulking multimillion dollar marble-and-glass edifice that exemplifies the Soviets' conspicuous striving for modernity. Western Kremlinologists expect few surprises from this congress. According to one feeble joke current in Moscow last week, the delegates will in fact be treated to a performance of Mnogo Shuma iz Nichego, otherwise known as Much Ado About Nothing...