Word: multimillion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fast-forward" button on his remote, he zipped ahead to what he said was his favorite scene -- Sharon Stone bending down to place flowers on the grave of the family she had lost to a mob bombing. He pressed "pause" and, like a gadget-crazed kid, began putting his multimillion-dollar toy through its paces. With The Specialist still on hold, he ordered a second movie, The Client, fast-forwarded to another favorite scene -- where Susan Sarandon is deciding whether or not to take Brad Renfro's case -- and pressed "pause" again...
...time Sasser got serious, he couldn't adjust to the new landscape, where promising to bring a multimillion dollar federal wind-tunnel project was just what the voters had soured on. Sasser triumphed in their first debate, but Frist turned his lackluster performance into another sign that he wasn't a smoothie from the big city. Sasser then turned negative, pointing out that Dr. Frist had masqueraded as a pet lover to get cats from an animal shelter to use in lab experiments, that he had not even registered to vote until six years ago. The Senator pointed...
...book cost a record $9 million; history professors were marshaled to advise on the proper period china and silverware. And CBS, hoping that the show will help carry it to first place in the November Nielsen sweeps, is promoting the epic accordingly. In addition to launching a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign, aimed largely at young women, the network will hold online computer discussions and offer tie-in giveaways, and some CBS affiliates will even give Scarlett look- alike parties...
...last. Hundreds of thousands of workers have been gripped by RSI, and many of them are furious. In the U.S. alone, more than 2,000 have filed lawsuits against the makers of computer equipment. Two big cases -- a multimillion-dollar suit by four newspaper reporters who developed RSI while using the Atex word-processing system, and a similar challenge to IBM -- are expected to go to court this fall. "It's not just typists, it's artists, blacksmiths, hairdressers, massage therapists and people in dozens of other professions," says Stephanie Barnes, a former secretary and RSI victim who went...
...Justice Department charges. Meanwhile, the FBI armed a GE whistle-blower with a hidden tape recorder last year to probe charges that the company had repeatedly ignored warnings about electrical problems that could compromise the safety of its aircraft engines. Not only has the whistle-blower brought a multimillion dollar suit against GE (the company calls the suit "frivolous and outrageous"), but the Justice Department is considering whether to bring its own charges as well...