Word: multimillion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Call it "speed," "crank" or "poor man's coke," the powder produces a cocaine-like high at half the price. Methamphetamine, at $60 a gram, is the discount drug of choice on the West Coast and a multimillion-dollar-a-year business for a new form of organized crime, a California-style Cosa Nostra on wheels. "We've got contract murders, interstate narcotics transactions, shipments of stolen property, cars and weapons," asserts U.S. Marshal Budd Johnson, member of a San Diego drug task force, the Organized Special Investigation Team (O.S.I.T.). "The Hell's Angels today...
Four years ago this multimillion-dollar business came under the eye of the FBI, the U.S. Post Office and the Internal Revenue Service. Since then, in an investigation dubbed Dipscam, more than 20 diploma mills have been closed down and three operators have been sent to jail. Last week John Blazer pleaded guilty to mail fraud for sending out degrees from his bogus universities of East Georgia and the Bahama Islands; he received a two-year prison term. And in Arkansas last year, George C. Lyon, 79, was given a year in prison and fined $2,000 after selling...
...exploit the high prices. But when the rains returned to the Golden Triangle in 1980, bumper crops followed, and suddenly growers from Iran to Thailand were saddled with a burgeoning surplus. Prices for high-grade heroin are still falling, as Asian dealers try to undercut one another in a multimillion-dollar scramble for new users. Hong Kong's 45,000 addicts can now shoot up for about the price of a movie ticket, $3. In Malaysia, a fix costs less than $2, no more than a beer...
...lose some of their constitutionally-sanctioned incentive to create if VCR use goes unfettered. But the concerns over reproduction of the tapes center largely around fears of top producers--how many people outside of lowa would bother to tape the morning farm report on the local news? Given the multimillion that many of these top producers make, it can hardly be that Larry Hagman of al. will ditch Dallas because some people might pass over the commercials or skip the rerun syndication because the tapes are already in their library...
...roaring flames signaled the start of NASA's busiest year in space. Ten missions are scheduled for 1984, including one with a secret Pentagon payload. But Challenger had barely settled into orbit 190 miles above the earth on the tenth shuttle mission when space gremlins struck. A multimillion-dollar communications satellite, one of two carried on board, mysteriously vanished into the void. Still, in spite of the embarrassing loss, NASA hoped to redeem itself with another of its spectaculars. This week, for the first time, astronauts plan to take a true step into space, leaving the safety...