Word: multimillions
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...system engineered toward financial disaster, particularly for small market clubs. Owners spent money, according to former Commissioner Peter V. Ueberroth, like "a bunch of drunken sailors." In attempts engaged in bidding wars and players' salaries escalated (an overall 3,000 percent increase over the last 22 years). The multimillion-dollar loss felt collectively by owners this season is less a result of occasional $6 million contracts to the game's Ryne Sandbergs than of frequent $2 million contracts to the game's Matt Youngs and Von Hayeses (translation for the non-fan: "losers...
...prodigies with names like Omar and Orestes and Lourdes gave a master class not only in the fundamentals but also in the finer points of flamboyance -- bunting one-handed, stretching singles into triples, chiseling the plate like jewelers. According to many Americans, at least seven of them could command multimillion-dollar salaries...
...ROSE OF GUNS N' ROSES -- HAMMER & HIS ENTOURAGE -- LOLLAPALOOZA '92 WITH RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS -- ICE CUBE -- THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN -- PEARL JAM & MORE Touring shows are booming again, as superstars hit the road with performances in which the sounds are enhanced -- and sometimes swamped -- by high-tech, multimillion-dollar special effects and gimmicks, from floating autos to body piercing...
Like high-tech, multimillion-dollar special effects. The Irish band U2, which used to pride itself on its spartan, no-glitz performance style, has invested $2.5 million in an extravaganza it calls the Zoo TV Outside Broadcast, to be unveiled when the group begins a 15-city U.S. swing that will run from Aug. 11 into November. Dates are still being added, but the tour will also hit Toronto and Montreal. The show employs nine screens, with the two largest measuring 20 ft. by 30 ft., three dozen 27-in. television monitors and a satellite dish. During the concert...
...Tocqueville 150 years ago, the this-is-a-new-land-and-we-can-do-anyth ing ethos that once defined the national character. Ross Perot in three short months has out of nothing created something far larger than a multibillion- dollar company, or perhaps something even larger than the multimillion- dollar campaign he will fund. Win or lose, his populist crusade and the challenge he is mounting to the establishment parties may well help break the deadlock of American democracy...