Word: multimillion
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...actually preceded the first Winter Games by 16 years, debuting in the summer of 1908. Attention quickly centered on the women (skating people prefer you to say ladies), though dimpled Sonja Henie was just 15 in 1928 when she won the first of three gold medals that launched her multimillion-dollar movie career. In at least two respects, the blond Norwegian starlet of Sun Valley Serenade is still the ideal. East Germany's Katarina Witt, reigning world and Olympic champion, is ( studying to be an actress. And U.S. Challenger Debi Thomas, Witt's primary competition in Calgary, likes the sound...
...well cared for. Steven Kalish, a convicted U.S. drug smuggler who was the chief witness against Noriega in the Tampa indictment, says he personally delivered at least $900,000 in bribes to the general in 1983 and 1984. In exchange, says Kalish, Noriega gave him a diplomatic passport, a multimillion-dollar letter of credit and safe passage for hundreds of thousands of pounds of marijuana...
...Pennsylvania Fish Commission reported numerous dead fish; ducks and geese, caught in the oil, had to be rescued and washed. Said Ashland Oil Chairman John Hall, who quickly declared his company would comply with federal law by footing the entire cleanup bill: "I expect it will be a multimillion-dollar problem...
...told me I had good stocks and should hold on. Now she keeps giving me excuses why she can't meet me for a few days." While Costa's threat was figurative, customer anger seemed all too real last week after an investor who lost nearly his entire multimillion-dollar portfolio walked into a Merrill Lynch outlet in Miami with a .357 magnum in his briefcase and killed the branch manager, seriously wounded a broker and then committed suicide. The customer, Arthur Kane, 53, later turned out to be a disbarred Kansas City lawyer and convicted...
...disease, and drug addiction. It also hosts 116 researchers from about 40 institutions all over the world, and gives them technical help with primate experiments. Outside researchers' work is funded by grants for their specific projects, while the upkeep of the center itself is paid for by a separate multimillion-dollar "core funding" grant from the National Institutes of Health...