Word: projected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...event will have all the advertising hoopla of the Super Bowl. Glavkosmos, the Soviet space agency, has hired Britain's Saatchi & Saatchi agency to package corporate sponsorships, similar to those sold for the Olympic Games. The marketing ploy could raise an estimated $26 million to help pay for the project. During the mission, two Soviet cosmonauts and the first ever British astronaut will spend a week aboard the Mir space station. Saatchi has already designed the joint project's logo, which features a soaring goose, and has named the mission Juno, in honor of the Roman goddess of marriage...
...added $15 million for controlling pollution in Cracow; he also pledged support for a move to reschedule some of the nation's foreign debt. In Hungary he offered $25 million in economic aid, $5 million for an environmental center, a $1.5 million a year Peace Corps project to help teach English, and the end of trade restrictions...
...implicated him directly in the scandal. Though Pierce had told a House subcommittee last May that he had never been personally involved in HUD program grants, Shirley McVay Wiseman told the panel that her boss had directly ordered her to approve $16 million in federal subsidies for a housing project in Durham, N.C., proposed by Pierce's former law partner. She refused, she said, so Pierce signed the papers...
...money over to the Government were not "Robin Hood-type heroes . . . robbing the rich. They are stealing from the taxpayer and depriving low- and moderate- income people of the opportunity to realize the American dream of home ownership." He noted that HUD had even let some developers turn housing projects for retirees into havens for the wealthy. He cited a Florida project in which two-bedroom apartments rented for $2,100 a month...
...years. Publisher Michael J. Klingensmith estimates the cost of the launch at $30 million after taxes. The magazine is the company's first major start-up venture since TV-CABLE WEEK, a listings guide for cable-company subscribers, folded after just five months in 1983. Another Time Inc. magazine project, PICTURE WEEK, was tested in 1985-86 but never launched...