Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cruise was willing to do anything for the picture; he tabled his usual multimillion-dollar salary, and will earn no money until the box office sends some back. He spent hours with Kovic, peppering the vet with questions, soaking up the man's life. In matching wheelchairs, the two men would go shopping; Cruise was rarely recognized. In a Westwood, Calif., electronics store, he was asked to leave because his wheels were leaving marks on the rubber carpet. "He was furious," recalls Kovic. "Everyone in the store turned and looked at him when he shouted, 'I have as much right...
...press. "During that period I was supposed to be living in the street, I also wrote ten movies, a novel and about 25 pieces of journalism," he says with annoyance. "Even in the flamboyant period of the '70s, I would say 85% of my waking time was spent on work. The day-to-day boring reality is that I was going to the typewriter and working...
Industry and financial experts could only conclude that the problem lay with the company's founders, brothers Charles and Maurice Saatchi. Over the past four years, both men have increasingly withdrawn from the firm's day-to-day * oversight. Charles, 46, has spent much of his time becoming one of the world's most voracious art collectors, sometimes buying entire exhibitions at a single gulp. Now he is unloading scores of works at the hyperprices his frenetic buying helped create. Maurice, 43, though not as aloof as his sibling, spends less and less time with Saatchi & Saatchi employees and clients...
Popular pressures have also played a role. As AIDS has spread, protesters have charged that the agency has been keeping lifesaving drugs out of the hands of victims. In fact, the FDA spent $5 million more than the $46 million Congress provided to seek a cure for the disease. With health-conscious Americans including less red meat in their diets, the FDA's thin line of inspectors has been forced to monitor increasing amounts of seafood, imported fruits and vegetables, and chicken and eggs. A number of spectacular food- tampering cases, like last March's poisoned Chilean grape case (only...
Denard was flown to South Africa, but Pretoria made it clear that he could not stay. Not only are officials there embarrassed by Denard's latest alleged caper, but also rumors persist that the $3 million South Africa spent annually until recently on the Comoros' presidential guard has served largely to line the mercenaries' pockets. Denard expects an even cooler reception in France. There he faces charges stemming from a failed 1977 coup attempt against Benin President Mathieu Kerekou...