Word: multimillions
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...then there was the Great Snake Bust. Snake poaching is a multimillion- dollar industry, in which poachers sell skins and live specimens to pet shops and private collectors through shady mail-order houses. So bad is the problem that scientists studying a recent plague of rats in some communities surrounding Texas' Big Bend National Park came to a startling conclusion: the problem resulted from the absence of their scaly natural predators, which had been nearly poached...
...million awarded to Rodney King by a Los Angeles jury last week is not the first multimillion-dollar sum the city has had to pay to compensate for the actions of its occasionally too interventionist police force...
TIME traced one secret multimillion-dollar sale of osmium 187, a by-product of nuclear reactors that is not weapons related but is an extremely expensive metal with applications in nuclear-energy production. The middlemen in the deal included a former party official and a member of the KGB, who acquired the element worth $40,000 a gram from the factory and sold it to a Swedish company for $70,000 -- though it is not clear whether the profits went into private pockets or the depleted coffers...
...three-day jaunt to an isolated military factory city, where my traveling companion initiated a multimillion-dollar weapons-system purchase, shows how the system operates. Only a promise of confidentiality precludes revealing exactly what weapons were for sale...
...Multimillion-dollar settlement will cost him credibility as well...