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...travel industry is cashing in on the trend too. For a one-time deposit of $375,000 and annual fees of up to $25,000, Exclusive Resorts--launched in 2002 and 50% owned by former AOL Time Warner chairman Steve Case--invites members to vacation in multimillion-dollar homes in more than 25 destinations around the world. The response has been tremendous: in the past year, the number of members has gone from fewer than 100 to more than...
...despite our relentless obsession with victory, despite the well-funded gold-medal strategies of sporting giants like the U.S. and China, despite the lure of multimillion-dollar advertising contracts for the most winsome of gold medalists, the Games were as much about those who finished dead last in their events as about those who took home gold. How else to explain the giddy joy of Katura Marae, proud citizen of the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu? The 14-year-old came in last in her heat of the 100-m dash, yet still clocked her fastest time...
...Music Man How Chip Davis has built his band, Mannheim Steamroller, into a multimillion-dollar empire
...Lilly, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, which routinely places multimillion-dollar bets on drug candidates that face overwhelming odds of failure, wanted to see if it could get a better idea of which compounds would succeed. So last year Lilly ran an experiment in which about 50 employees involved in drug development--chemists, biologists, project managers--traded six mock drug candidates through an internal market. "We wanted to look at the way scattered bits of information are processed in the course of drug development," says Alpheus Bingham, vice president for Lilly Research Laboratories strategy. The market...
...assurance that it will be able to proceed with its expansion of Harvard Law School and the science departments of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). In return, it offers the community a limit on the University’s development in the area, as well as a multimillion-dollar package of benefits ranging from funds for after-school programs to landscaping to traffic improvement measures...