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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...
...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...
...Multimillion-dollar settlement will cost him credibility as well...
...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...