Word: multimillions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case. It was part of their strategy to wait and see what happened in there before they took their shot at us." The civil case had to be resolved quickly so that at the very least, the criminal proceedings would not benefit from it. From Jackson's viewpoint, a multimillion-dollar payoff was an easier option than the humiliation of testifying -- and the possibility of jail time...
...hate a city so crazily go-go that three different, colossally theme-park-like casino-hotels (the $375 million Luxor, Steve Wynn's $475 million Treasure Island and now the $1 billion MGM Grand, the largest hotel on earth and the venue last weekend for Barbra Streisand's multimillion- dollar return to live, paid performing) have opened on the Strip in just the past three months? How can you not love and hate a city so freakishly democratic that at a hotel called the Mirage, futuristic-looking infomercial star Susan Powter and a premodern Mennonite family can pass...
...year he was denounced by Dan Quayle himself after a car thief who murdered a Texas state trooper claimed to have been inspired by Shakur's debut album, 2Pacalypse Now. Though the jury didn't buy that defense in the killer's trial, the trooper's widow brought a multimillion-dollar product-liability suit against Shakur. For his part, Shakur has a $10 million civil rights suit against the Oakland, California, police department, in which he claims that he was beaten by two officers who ticketed him for jaywalking...
...untangle his schemes without some inside help. But they found their songbird last month, when Gardini's successor at Montedison was arrested and extradited from Switzerland. Giuseppe Garofano was brought back to Milan and immediately began giving investigators a detailed rundown of the company's double bookkeeping and multimillion-dollar payoffs to politicians. He gave them enough to issue warrants for the arrest of five top Ferruzzi executives, including Gardini...
Fundraisers use a formula to construct a multimillion dollar gift like the 35th reunion donation the whole class will make to the Harvard College Fund this year. First, the reunion gift chairs actively solicit two or three gifts of $1 million or more, which often requires cross-country travel to stroke and cajole prospective donors. With those gifts in hand, fundraisers nationwide go after donations in the $10,000 to $100,000 range. Other fundraisers, whose focus is participation, launch phone drives to pick up minor contributors...