Word: spending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They will pack their entire family into the trunk of a smuggler's car and ride for several hours until they reach Los Angeles. They will spend hundreds of dollars for a safe passage just to San Diego. And many will die in the process...
...very high. The money in this town is on failure." No one, however, is ready to dismiss Murdoch's bold venture. "It's well financed, it's well conceived, and it's got a guy with deep pockets," says Edward Atorino, media analyst at Smith Barney. Murdoch expects to spend $150 million over the next two years and does not anticipate making money for at least four years. "Sure, it's high risk," he says. "But it's high return. If we succeed, we're going to have an asset worth billions." And if not, a place in the trivia...
...they -- the Mob? More like the lost patrol. They are middle-aged men without women, salesmen peddling an obsolete product: themselves. They take an artist's pride in the egregious frauds they dream up ) to sell some aluminum siding to a gullible homeowner. Ask them why they spend all this creative energy either on the job or drinking it off, and they will probably confess that they do it to support a family they rarely see and in whom they have no more than a patron's interest. The losers among them, like Tilley (Danny DeVito), just want to score...
...subject of modern British art has never been tried in depth by an American museum. And no matter what quibbles and demurrals one may have about the choice of this work or that name, the Royal Academy has done a wonderful job. No one with half an eye could spend a couple of hours in Burlington House and leave without asking why the cumulative achievements of British painters and sculptors -- as distinct from the popularity of a few individuals, such as Henry Moore, Francis Bacon and David Hockney -- have been so scanted by the official and mainly American annals...
...Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, who prosecuted the case, said there was "no excuse" for the crimes. Anderson could face a $500,000 fine and ten years in prison. Giuliani will urge that the former Cabinet officer spend time in jail...