Word: multimillion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...timing more exact, alpine skiing today resembles Formula One auto racing: runs get faster and the risks bigger. Victory or defeat depends on a few hundredths of a second. This season alone two skiers have crashed to death in international competition. Fierce national rivalry, especially in Europe, and a multimillion-dollar ski industry have turned top skiers into human missiles, whose streamlining is tested in wind tunnels. The choice of wax for polyethylene ski bottoms before each run is a state secret. Innsbruck may produce top speeds of nearly 85 m.p.h. Says Austrian Champion Franz Klammer, 22: "You know what...
...dramatic example occurred in 1970 when Eatontown National Bank in New Jersey, the victim of a multimillion-dollar embezzlement, was closed by Government order, then invaded by a score of banking agents. When anxious depositors phoned the bank, they heard an operator greet them with "FDIC." Eventually $13.5 million was handed out to 9,904 depositors...
...Multimillion-dollar movies are usually open to the press as they are being made; their heavy tread can be heard clumping toward the theaters for a year prior to release. Kubrick's locations, however, were closed. Not a single publicity still emerged without the director's express approval, which was almost never granted. Thus the only word on Barry Lyndon came from actors and technicians, none of them privy to Kubrick's vision, and some wearied and literally sickened by his obsessive perfectionism...
...West" inspired more culinary variations and impassioned claims than there are spines on a cactus. Those who cater to chili addicts are as contentious as their customers, but they agree on at least one fact: the growing and packaging of peppers and chili products have become a multimillion-dollar industry...
...there has been a constant flow of traffic across this corner of hell since time immemorial." Last week the U.S. Congress passed a joint resolution that will allow some 200 American technicians to become the latest pilgrims to the Sinai. The U.S. technicians will act as "custodians" at two multimillion-dollar surveillance sites along the Giddi Pass. They will also man two or three new watch stations in the area. Their life will not be easy, as TIME'S Jerusalem bureau chief Donald Neff discovered when he went on a Jeep-borne tour of the area. His report...