Word: multimillion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...multimillion-dollar election was a disaster for the American people and a boon to television. Most of this money was spent to produce worthless political rhetoric. If the Federal Government wants to slash expenditures, it should start by cutting campaign financing, an area that can well afford...
...Cambridge Rent Control Board is scheduled to decide later this month whether to allow Harvard to proceed with its multimillion dollar conversion plans...
...lawyers called the tall, gaunt ex-CIA agent "the spy who was left out in the cold." His multimillion-dollar gunrunning operation to Libyan terrorists, they argued, was nothing more than a clever cover for his real mission: ferreting out Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi's secrets for his former employer, the Central Intelligence Agency. But the Government prosecutor in federal district court in Alexandria, Va., depicted Edwin Wilson, 54, not as an undercover agent but as a skilled, avaricious wheeler-dealer, exploiting contacts and expertise built up after years of "Company" service. After deliberating only 4½ hours...
Roger Birk, chairman of Merrill Lynch & Co., stands as tall on the job as in his profession. Birk presides over the largest U.S. brokerage house from a brown walnut stand-up desk that he uses for everything from reading mail to signing multimillion-dollar deals. He acquired the desk ten years ago to help relieve the agonizing backaches that plagued him after long hours in a chair. Those pains are gone now, but the desk has stayed. Says Birk: "I find it pleasant and more practical than normal desks, and even tension easing...
After reviewing Vicki Morgan's tawdry yet strangely pathetic accounts of Alfred Bloomingdale's sexual depravity, Judge Christian E. Markey Jr. last week dismissed most of her multimillion-dollar palimony suit, asserting that the relationship between the millionaire and her was "no more than that of a wealthy, older, married paramour and a young well-paid mistress." Whether or not she was more than a mistress, he appears to have been the master. During sworn pretrial testimony, Morgan claimed that Bloomingdale would bind several women with his neckties, beat them with a belt and "stand there and watch...