Word: multimillions
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MANUEL ANTONIO NORIEGA'S CONviction came at an exceedingly high price. Washington's eagerness to put Noriega behind bars occasioned the controversial 1989 invasion of Panama that took the lives of 23 American soldiers and at least 500 local citizens. The seven-month, multimillion-dollar trial featured testimony from some 20 dope dealers, pilots and money launderers, much of it in exchange for reduced sentences, cash settlements and other favors. And although President Bush hailed last week's verdict as "a major victory against the drug lords," Noriega's conviction is likely to have little lasting effect on the overall...
...embodiment of the ancient Greek maxim of the fox and the hedgehog. Clinton, the fox, knows many things well: his policy positions on a wide range of issues are thoughtful and often innovative. But Brown, like the hedgehog, knows just one important thing: the current system of multimillion-dollar political fund raising is inherently corrupting to democracy. Brown -- who, even his fondest admirers admit, is a political changeling constantly taking on new personas -- has finally embraced a cause that returns him to his political roots as a post-Watergate clean-government crusader in California...
Even if they do realize that their skills have deteriorated, they may stick around just to pick up paychecks. In this era of multimillion-dollar salaries and endorsement deals, it is still not uncommon to find the poorly invested player who leaves the game with little more than he had when he came in. Either he's in serious financial straits or he just wants to father his nest a bit more...
...code information from cash registers. On the May 25 pop chart, the first based on the SoundScan data, 15 more country albums showed up in the Top 200. In 1984 the country category showed only eight gold (500,000 sales), four platinum (1 million sales) and seven multiplatinum (multimillion sales) albums; last year an astonishing 24 country albums went gold, 21 went platinum, and eight went multiplatinum...
...life, but I think most people in our union look at that as a private matter and do not think it takes away from his ability to run this country." But that reasoning ignores the fact that Clinton has yet to face the toughest character test of all: a multimillion-dollar assault by the Republicans...