Word: multimillion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lengthy saga of the system's development attests, HOLLIS has not come of age without difficulty. After falling behind other comparable research institutions--Harvard is the second-to-last Ivy League school to implement an on-line catalog--the University now has both a multimillion dollar stake in and a lengthy time commitment to insuring the new system's success...
...lengthy saga of the system's development attests, HOLLIS has not come of age without difficulty. After falling behind other comparable research institutions--Harvard is the second-to-last Ivy League school to implement an on-line catalog--the University now has both a multimillion dollar stake in and a lengthy time commitment to insuring the new system's success...
...lengthy saga of the system's development attests, HOLLIS has not come of age without difficulty. After falling behind other comparable research institutions--Harvard is the second-to-last Ivy League school to implement an on-line catalog--the University now has both a multimillion dollar stake in and a lengthy time commitment to insuring the new system's success...
Douglass Wallop's 1954 novel, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, reflects that innocent era before AstroTurf, designated hitters and utility infielders with multimillion-dollar contracts. But every middle-aged baseball fan can still appreciate the Faustian temptation at the core of both the novel and the hit Broadway musical it inspired, Damn Yankees. Joe Boyd is a paunchy real estate salesman condemned to root for his hapless hometown team, the now defunct Washington Senators. The devil, who prefers the moniker Applegate, offers to transform Joe into the greatest slugger in the history of the game. Applegate's price...
Taylor had worked for First Chicago for eight years, and was employed in its wire-transfer section, which dispatches multimillion-dollar sums around the world via computers and phone lines. The bank's biggest customers routinely call this department to transfer funds, often paying money directly into suppliers' accounts. As at most banks, transfers require that a First Chicago employee call back another executive at the customer's offices to reconfirm the order, using various code numbers. All such calls are automatically taped. Taylor had access to the codes and knew the names of the appropriate executives at various corporations...