Word: multimillions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taken-a switch in emphasis from artistic control to mere entrepreneurism. Like other large record companies, Columbia under Davis had moved more and more into the distributorship of smaller labels (Stax, Philadelphia International, Monument), more and more into high bidding for established stars (Neil Diamond and Laura Nyro for multimillion dollar deals) and less into its own experimentation and development of talent...
Major telescopes, from Mount Palomar's giant 200-in. reflector on down, will follow Kohoutek across the sky. NASA, too, will go all out, sponsoring Operation Kohoutek, a multimillion-dollar effort involving hundreds of scientists and the latest space-age technology...
...elaborately constructed business empire of Financier C. Arnholt ("Mr. San Diego") Smith has been under unrelenting attack for months. He is fighting the Securities & Exchange Commission, which has charged him and several cronies with fleecing the stockholders of Westgate-California Corp., the multimillion-dollar conglomerate of which Smith is chairman. The suit is scheduled to go to trial in San Diego this week. Smith is also dueling with the Internal Revenue Service, which claims that he owes $23 million in unpaid taxes and interest. Even his old, close friendship with Richard Nixon, whom Smith has helped bankroll politically since...
...even Stan the Man can't give St. Louis the one thing it really wants -an end to the strike. Nor, it seems, can negotiators for the striking Teamsters union and the papers. The main issue is automation-a new multimillion-dollar Post-Dispatch printing plant has made obsolete the jobs of some of the 32 Teamsters who load papers on and off delivery trucks. Last week the Globe-Democrat went to court to seek a settlement, and Mayor John Poelker said he would step in to mediate the strike. Meanwhile the readers wait...
...listings will also alert you to lesser known, more talented rock and sometimes jazz performers who rarely get the attention they deserve. Honest-to-goodness folkies and bluegrass players have more musical talent than all of Alice Cooper's cobras laid end to end. 'Tis better to overlook a multimillion-making electronic group than an exciting unknown playing a small club...