Word: multimillion
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...Arkansas bankers Herby Branscum and Robert Hill go to trial for allegedly submitting $13,000 in phony expense vouchers to their bank, then using some of the money to reimburse themselves and others for contributions to Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial campaign. Defense attorneys call the case prosecutorial overkill, a multimillion-dollar probe of a small-potatoes violation, but it could tie Clinton more closely to wrongdoing than the McDougal trial did and will probably force him to testify again. Branscum was a key Clinton moneyman, and Clinton made him state highway commissioner in 1991. The prosecution will try to prove...
...Nintendo 64--a game system that is scheduled to be unveiled in Los Angeles on Wednesday night, marketed in Japan in June and arrayed on U.S. store shelves in September--represents a multimillion-dollar gamble by the company that practically owned the hearts and minds of the video game-playing world for much of the 1980s--until they were stolen in 1991 by Sega and a speedy blue hedgehog named Sonic...
...ruling stunned officials at the university, who had been loudly supportive of affirmative action and were in the midst of a multimillion-dollar campaign to boost minority enrollment. University president Robert M. Berdahl warned that the decision could lead to "the virtual resegregation of higher education," and the entire 15-school system of the University of Texas temporarily suspended admissions. Texas A&M, the other large state system, later announced that it would follow suit...
...network has indulged more aggressively in this kind of stunt than Fox. As part of a complex $1 million package deal last fall that included a viewer contest, Fox had a character on its Party of Five ask, "Got milk?"--the tag line for the multimillion-dollar America's Dairy Farmers' ad campaign. In a similar marketing scheme, Dr. Dre spouted AT&T's "Know the code" on New York Undercover. The upcoming Mother's Day episode of Living Single will top that for MCI when a character calls mom by dialing 1-800-COLLECT. "Whatever...
This August the Marlboro Unlimited--a multimillion-dollar, 20-car, specially built train sporting high glass-domed passenger cars, a cinema, a dance club, hot tubs, staterooms with private baths and, everywhere, the Marlboro logo--embarks from Denver for the first of 20 five-day treks through the West. One hundred winners of a sweepstakes drawing, who must testify they are smokers over 21, will be flown to the train with their guests and receive $1,000 mad money. They will take side trips on horseback, white-water raft and hot-air balloon. They will see private shows by country...