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...will be a year before the first of the minisatellites take to space, but the companies stand to make up to $4 million per fully loaded rocket--a nice payday for a missile designed for Doomsday. --By Jeffrey Kluger
...filling up blank pages. The youngest of four children, growing up in Chicago, he decided that he would become a writer and proceeded, with relentless determination, to do so. His early novels attracted critical respect but little money; he was nearly 50 before Herzog (1964) produced his first big payday. As his fame grew, he attracted what seems like zillions of awards, including the 1976 Nobel Prize for Literature...
...nowhere near payday, and Lisa Halverson was down to $10 and a package of diapers. While she enjoyed working as a typist in Minneapolis, day-care expenses for her two preschoolers, at $160 a week, ate most of her $207 take-home pay. Halverson felt she had no choice but to go on welfare. "The hardest thing I ever had to do," she says, "was to tell my boss I couldn't afford to work anymore...
...thought to have sold tens of thousands of hits of e. On May 12, authorities seized half a million pills at San Francisco's airport--the biggest e bust ever. Each pill costs pennies to make but sells for between $20 and $40, so someone missed a big payday...
...began borrowing at two other payday-lending firms before turning to Ace, where she was "astonished at the number of senior citizens that were coming in each month." In a typical transaction, she borrowed $200 for 12 days and paid a $30 fee--an annual interest rate of 456%. If she missed a payment, she says, she would owe an additional $30. "By the end of the month," she says, "I would have no money." Finally, a distressed Rowings, who had always believed in paying her debts but was worn down by the endless dunning calls from bill collectors...