Word: multimillion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City subway station, it was in part inspired by the life of Edmund Perry, a gifted black graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy whose violent death revealed a troubled double existence. Folks who found the Bad video too tough may be soothed by next year's Smooth Criminal. This multimillion-dollar minifilm has slam-bang special effects supervised by Colin Chilvers, who worked on the first three Superman films...
...increase of about 25% from 1980. There were 187 gang-related homicides in 1986, a 24% increase over 1985. So far, this year looks even worse. Drive-by shootings are more common than smog alerts, and the burgeoning trade in crack cocaine has turned gangs from stray hoods into multimillion-dollar enterprises equipped with Uzis and AK-47 assault rifles...
...past few decades, as property owners began to demand that coastal areas stay put -- by buying up seaside property and erecting multimillion- dollar beachfront houses, condominiums, hotels and resorts on the shifting sand -- the natural process of erosion began to matter to growing numbers of Americans. Along with the roads, parking lots, airfields and commercial interests that serve them, development projects not only put more people and property in harm's way but also unwittingly accelerated the damage to U.S. coastal areas...
...televangelists and how well are those multimillion-dollar stewardships handled? What exactly happened at PTL? Could it affect other major television ministries? To answer these important questions, which involve hundreds of thousands of devout Americans and the huge amounts of money they give, TIME conducted a month-long investigation of these often secretive organizations. In the process of piecing together a comprehensive picture of the inner workings of PTL and other ministries, correspondents scrutinized hundreds of documents and crisscrossed the U.S. to speak with the key performers and more than 100 inside sources, many of whom had previously refused...
...difficult to understand how the Reagan Administration, which is so suspicious of everything the U.S.S.R. says and does, could allow the Soviets to provide both the labor and materials to build our multimillion-dollar Moscow embassy. And then when it is finished, we are surprised to find it riddled with bugs ((NATION, June 29)). Now Americans are asked to spend millions of dollars more to correct it. I find that amazing, incomprehensible and stupid...