Word: multimillions
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DIED. ELREY JEPPESEN, 89, ex-mail pilot who parlayed his meticulous terrain notes into a multimillion-dollar business publishing air-navigation charts and other flight information; in Denver. Jeppesen began jotting notes for his own use in the '30s, when charting a course by air meant reading road maps or "hugging" railroad tracks...
...which PC to buy or wondering how to rescue the last half of that tax return you were preparing. Gerstner's Big Blue will offer solutions to help point you safely to the future. If the old IBM was father Thomas Watson in his white shirt next to a multimillion-dollar mainframe, the new IBM is Uncle Lou, sleeves rolled up, getting the darn thing to work...
...problems haven't been so easy to fix in the company's mainframe business, which manufactures the multimillion-dollar data monsters that are the Cadillacs of the information highway. Most of the growth in computing these days is coming from small firms wiring up new networks with inexpensive computers. These small machines generally sell for thousands of dollars, not millions, and they are selling fast enough to push upstarts like Dell to the front of the market, well ahead...
Levering has no illusions about his chances against David Dreier, an eight-term incumbent with a multimillion-dollar war chest. But the retired history professor believes that Dreier's reputation as a moderate is overblown, and hopes Dreier's votes to cut social programs like food stamps and school lunches will mark him as a "Team Gingrich" member who should not be playing in Washington...
...member of the Standards of Official Conduct Committee, McDermott was a leader of the House investigation into the propriety of Newt Gingrich's multimillion-dollar book deal. One of the most liberal Representatives, he voted against this summer's welfare-reform bill and last year offered a Democratic alternative to the G.O.P.'s proposal to reduce planned Medicare spending by $270 billion. In liberal Seattle, he remains a favorite to repeat...