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...there's still Daniel K. Ludwig, the richest man in America, who's spent the last several years trying to build a little empire in the South American jungle. Can't you just see an unstable fellow like that picking up the phone and offering Harvard a zillion dollars to rename South House North House...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Naming Names | 11/3/1982 | See Source »

...addition to those two companies, there is also a multitude of other firms offering various programs to hook up offices of the future. Says Industry Analyst Jean Yates in San Francisco: "There are a zillion different networking systems. Every company out there will gladly sell you two." The company that develops the system that becomes the industry-wide standard will clearly have a giant jump on its competitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You've Come a Long Way, Baby | 6/28/1982 | See Source »

...lose a zillion, by Francis Ford Coppola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: I'm Always in Money Trouble | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...longer than usual during the recent Christmas to New Year vacation week--a tribute to the drawing power of America's first skiing president. Thousands of people each day waited up to two hours for a gondola ride to the Mid-Vail ski bowl where Gerry Ford and a zillion Secret Service agents were learning the difference between a schuss and a wedel. Since Ford usually made his appearances between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.--in the height of the noonday sun--the sun decks outside the Mid-Vail ski lodge and the chairlift lines snaking at its base swelled...

Author: By H. JEFFREY Leonard, | Title: Mr. Ford's Holiday | 1/16/1975 | See Source »

...zillion other folks whose names...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: A Christmas Cavil | 12/20/1974 | See Source »

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