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Star Trek: The Motion Picture--Surely the highlight of the Hollywood Christmas season is this week's release of the long-awaited Star Trek movie. At more that $49 million, Gene Roddenberry's epic-to-be is one of the most expensive films ever made. But the high price tag is for a good cause--a guaranteed audience of devoted trekkies has been waiting for this one for ten years. They're selling reserved seats in most theaters, but if you bribe the doorman, you're bound...
Whatever extraction method is used, the investment will be enormous. Union's proposed 9,000-bbl.-a-day plant would cost $130 million; Occidental's 50,000-bbl.-a-day operation carries a $1 billion price tag. Colony's process, because of its size and capital investment, would be the most expensive: $1.5 billion to $2 billion...
...more safely at low altitudes. The FB-111 would be more difficult for the Soviets to detect, hi part because it shows up as a smaller radar image than the B-52. What might prevent Allen's project from taking off is its price tag: $6 billion...
Friedman, whose company was selected from among 17 firms that originally submitted development proposals, says the price tag on the project has gone up one-third from original estimate. "We knew it would be a slow process," Friedman says, "but nobody anticipated how slow it would...
...long enough to consider its prey. Thompson has done extensive research on his subject, and quotes liberally from other people's remembrances, letters and other documents. But he doesn't let the facts obscure the phenomenon. Admittedly Thompson goes overboard with the dramatics at times. He delights in ominous tag lines, affixed to long stretches of narrative. As Charles ponders life in a Dehli jail cell. Thompson writes about his future. He required "a country in which he was neither known nor wanted by police, one in which riches abounded, one whose borders were easy to traverse illegally, one whose...