Word: multimillions
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From a modest beginning in the Boston area a year ago (TIME, April 19), the buying and selling of fake term papers has grown into a nationwide, multimillion-dollar business. Ads in major campus newspapers have attracted thousands of students, who pay the going rate of $3 per page on any subject from Donne's Holy Sonnets to the United Auto Workers. Although there are no reliable figures on the number of fakes turned in every month, many educators agree with Robert Laudicina, a dean of students at Fairleigh Dickinson University: "At this point, these term-paper mills...
...specifics of the deal with Saudi Arabia will continue this week, though no final agreement is expected for months. OPEC made it clear that member nations are more unified than ever in their determination to gain part ownership of the companies. OPEC members are considering starting a multimillion-dollar special fund "to assist any member country affected by actions taken against it by oil companies." Presumably the money could be used to keep afloat nations whose oil might be boycotted by Western oil buyers in participation disputes. Eventually the producing countries hope to get at least 51% control...
...sounded almost like a dream ten years ago, when a syndicate headed by Karim, the young Aga Khan, announced the development of Sardinia's Costa Smeralda as a multimillion-dollar superresort. Hotels have since been abuilding, tourists arriving, yachts dropping anchor. But then it began to look like a dream again. Said Karim: "We have not found the expected support in Sardinia." Moved by the jet set's response, Karim promptly reversed himself. Once more the dream seems real...
...trouble with the kids, what with Christina, 20, getting married last summer to 47-year-old Los Angeles Real Estate Broker Joe Bolker, and Alexander, 23, going steady with 39-year-old Divorcee Fiona Thyssen. Onassis, though, has a kind of authority not given to all parents: a multimillion-dollar trust fund that Alexander and Christina will begin to enjoy on Dec. 11-provided Daddy Ari approves. Alexander has begun dismissing talk about Fiona as "nonsense," and Christina has gone off to London, leaving Husband Bolker at home to cancel the invitations he had sent out for her 21st birthday...
Flamboyant and tireless, Glenn W. Turner is to salesmanship what Billy Sunday was to revivalism. Now 37, he has built a tiny door-to-door cosmetics firm into a multimillion-dollar empire by stirring life's losers with a bewitching fast-buck gospel. "All we're doing is showing people how they can make something of themselves," says Turner, a sharecropper's son who favors neon-bright suits, ivory-colored boots made of skin from unborn calves, and a rhinestone American-flag lapel pin the size of a calling card. Turner's activities have also stirred...