Word: multimillion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first to see that I had creative ability in addition to business ability, and I helped Jimmy because I saw that he had incredible business instincts." Iovine's ease with musicians helped Interscope strike up several profitable partnerships with subsidiary labels, including Trauma Records, through which Interscope signed multimillion-seller Bush; Nothing Records, which brought Manson and industrial-rock innovator Trent Reznor; and Death Row, through which it co-financed discs by Snoop and producer...
...Whitman's victory four years ago was that she was an oddly effective populist candidate. She got grief for her multimillion-dollar net worth, and for an unfortunate comment about a tax rebate: "Funny as it might seem, $500 is a lot of money to some people." But she convinced voters she felt their pain over Governor Jim Florio's $2.8 billion tax increase. It was her vow to undo the damage with a 30% income-tax cut that gave her a winning margin of 26,093 votes. This time, though, it is the feisty McGreevey who seems...
...then Denver was never really hip. The multimillion-selling career that began with his penning of "Leaving on a Jet Plane" for Peter, Paul and Mary and crested with "Rocky Mountain High," "Sunshine on My Shoulders" and "Take Me Home, Country Roads" was never the messianic scamper of a rock star. His fans were many but silent; Denver was a star in the way that "Walker, Texas Ranger" is a top-20 hit these days: through the power of the uncool masses...
...seen no significant pay or benefit increases during that time, weren't so enamored. In fact, "they were ready to throw the bum out," says a former Carey aide. The challenger, James P. Hoffa, son of the notorious former Teamsters leader, was coming on strong with a multimillion-dollar war chest. To save their man, Carey aides began a desperate scramble for money. The schemes they hatched would make a mockery of the $22 million that the Federal Government had spent to clean up the union and ensure that the race would be the fairest in Teamster history...
...husband of the nice lady who runs the Judaica shop over on Lincoln Road. In Los Angeles, where he made a considerable fortune, Moskowitz is renowned--in the tiny, working-class town of Hawaiian Gardens, that is--for taking over its bingo parlor and turning it into a multimillion-dollar money machine...