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Dissatisfied with the Sacramento governor's mansion, Nancy ordered another, a $1.4 million monstrosity that later stood empty for ten years | p 34 UGM 1991 |
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$10...................................1
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This homage to Max Ernst, on which he spent some $10 million, was unfinished at his death, and is already being | p 72 UGM 1991 |
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rarely allow the camera to leave the face of the $10-million leading actor. By contrast, Casablanca is rich in supporting roles | p 7 UGM 1993 |
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$100..................................5
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case. ‘It's in here?‘ I took the two packets of $100 bills from my jacket. When I had handed them to | p 763 DA 1968 |
non-consumer. His annual income is estimated to be more than $100,000, but he lives on a minute fraction of this | p 260 UGM 1971 |
the end. By the age of forty, Presley had earned $100 million. He gave away Cadillacs to passing strangers, threw expensive | p 40 UGM 1981 |
price of bootleg gasoline on the black market rose to $100 a gallon on the Atlantic coast of the United States | p 46 HA 1981 |
Studios an arsonist has partially destroyed the sets for the $100 million budget science-fiction films The Revenge of R2D2 and C3PO | p 1097 OOA 1984 |
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American paperback firm, Berkley Books. I received an advance of $1000, which seemed a fortune. I celebrated by moving from the | p 191 ML 2008 |
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$13...................................1
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copies of The Great Gatsby, for a total royalty of $13. Guardian A Working-class Proust Henry Miller Robert Ferguson Henry Miller | p 110 UGM 1982 |
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$200..................................2
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into returning them. Tactlessly, she announced the purchase of a $200,000 china set on the same day that the President | p 34 UGM 1991 |
his life. His parents gave him a monthly allowance of $200, which arrived regularly for the next twenty-five years. Few research | p 132 UGM 1991 |
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$244..................................1
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recovered. Between 1920 and 1929, according to Bruccoli, Fitzgerald earned $244,967, at least six times its present value, but from | p 110 UGM 1982 |
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$25...................................2
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a gallon in 1978 to $5 in 1985, and to $25 in 1990. After the introduction of rationing in 1993, the | p 46 HA 1981 |
Johns -- he himself was having to get by on $25,000 portraits of bankers and their wives. Neutral to the | p 60 UGM 1989 |
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$250..................................1
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the Atlantic coast of the United States, and to over $250 in California. The end came quickly. In 1999 General Motors | p 46 HA 1981 |
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perhaps, but so far everything has gone well, thanks to $2500‘s worth of Nikon Zoomatic and an obliging Barcelona camera | p 856 60Z 1976 |
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$3....................................2
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summit meetings with Gorbachev were scheduled by Nancy and her $3,000-a-month astrologer. Since then the grey men have moved in | p 35 UGM 1991 |
literature already existed about the moral agonies of being paid $3,000 a week to do so. I couldn't wait to | p 121 UGM 1993 |
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$300..................................1
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Mafia. He was claimed to have a personal fortune of $300 million, to have financed Bugsy Siegel in the creation of | p 45 UGM 1991 |
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$4....................................1
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cubic foot, Franz calculated idly, it's so far worth about $4 x 10 to power of 27. ‘Going on to the | p 34 CC 1957 |
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$5....................................1
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had already climbed from 75c a gallon in 1978 to $5 in 1985, and to $25 in 1990. After the introduction | p 46 HA 1981 |
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$500..................................2
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executions should be on prime-time TV.‘ The first hard cash, $500, was paid by the Daily Express (‘When the British are | p 42 UGM 1979 |
in, Life magazine happily appeared on the scene with a $500,000 offer for the astronauts‘ exclusive stories -- their annual | p 274 UGM 1979 |
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$6....................................1
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own power services, aerators, reservoirs, farm laboratories ...‘ The car bore. $6 x 10 to power of 75 5th Day: West 270 | p 35 CC 1957 |
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$60...................................1
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presides over John Carpenter's extraordinary low-budget feature. Reportedly made for $60,000, Dark Star was originally filmed in 16mm by a | p 20 UGM 1987 |
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$7....................................1
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Next time he would save up a couple of thousand. $7 x 10 to power of 127 7th Day: West 2700 | p 35 CC 1957 |
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$75...................................1
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75) The Royal Proclamation. 76) The pound sterling rose to $75.50. 77) Prince Andrew. Repeatedly. 78) Injection into the testicles | p 1103 ATQ 1985 |
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$8....................................2
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crossed the platform and started back for home. 125 cents. $8 x 10 to power of 28. 4th Day: West 270 | p 34 CC 1957 |
industries. 66) The value of the pound sterling rose to $8.75. 67) American TV networks, Time Magazine, Newsweek. 68) The | p 1103 ATQ 1985 |
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$8000.................................1
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exclusive stories -- their annual pay at the time averaged $8000. From then on, as Wolfe says, the seven astronauts were | p 274 UGM 1979 |
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$APOLLO...............................1
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12/04/68 12:37:241N CQJBAA DELETE ALL LOAD $APOLLO CONTROL CALLING LUNAR MODULE. YOU ARE ON SCHEDULED VERTICAL LANDING | p 49 LOM 1969 |
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$HELL.................................1
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roundabout and -- You're back where you first started from. $Hell x 10 to power of N. CRY HOPE, CRY FURY | p 38 CC 1957 |
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$NBR=.................................1
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DR CHRISTOPHER EVANS LANDED ON THE MOON CONNECTED ON CHANNEL $NBR= 15 LOGIN CQJBAA 15IN 12/04/68 12:37:241N | p 49 LOM 1969 |
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&.....................................28
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square and the drained streets around it were silent, only & distant whir of an air-conditioner in the depot ship reminding | p 136 DW 1962 |
as they stowed Connolly's monitoring equipment aboard, checking his Smith & Wesson and exchanging a pair of defective mosquito boots. As | p 436 QR 1963 |
dietary sense of the term, as used by the Food & Agriculture Organization in its classification of aboriginal peoples. They won't | p 451 QR 1963 |
to me.‘ For once the head-boy hesitated. ‘Gun, sir?‘ ‘Smith & Wesson. It should be loaded, but there's a box of | p 638 DS 1964 |
slipped it into the left cup of her brassiere. Smith & Wesson Kovarski blundered through the darkness among the dunes. Below | p 667 BM 1966 |
a bar. Commentator GIs relax during a weekend of R & R. Two days ago they were fighting off a Liberation | p 954 TW 1967 |
of the entire male population over eleven years. 83) Smith & Wesson short-barrel thirty-eight. 84) Entirely my own idea. 85) Many | p 1103 ATQ 1985 |
wall-loads of broken crockery and the lurid twilight of Gilbert & George -- lose his inspiration and devote himself for his | p 60 UGM 1989 |
John Pope-Hennessy Sir John Pope-Hennessy, sometime director of the V & A and the British Museum, is the last of the | p 79 UGM 1991 |
closer to the ground. Shortly before he left the V & A to become director of the British Museum, Sir John | p 79 UGM 1991 |
surprisingly, the Pop Artists. In 1938 he joined the V & A, whose walls closed around him for thirty-five years. The | p 80 UGM 1991 |
parents‘ steamer trunks had appeared a year after the P & O boat had docked. At midnight we arrived at the | p 174 UGM 1991 |
shirtsleeves and the women in what might have been C & A frocks. Of course, there were no bookstalls selling newspapers | p 175 UGM 1991 |
Some mail-order Kalashnikov?‘ ‘It's not turned up yet. A Heckler & Koch semi-automatic.‘ ‘Heckler & Koch? That's a police-issue machine gun | p 25 KC 2006 |
not turned up yet. A Heckler & Koch semi-automatic.‘ ‘Heckler & Koch? That's a police-issue machine gun. It might have been | p 25 KC 2006 |
husband. Accidents and Emergencies The waiting room in the Accident & Emergency department at Brooklands Hospital was almost empty when I | p 60 KC 2006 |
appeared through the smoke and haze, waiting outside the Accident & Emergency entrance of Brooklands Hospital. The rioters had moved down | p 129 KC 2006 |
held it up to her. ‘Recognize it, Sergeant? Police-issue Heckler & Koch, I'm ready to bet. Someone gave it to me | p 186 KC 2006 |
was certainly powerful, and might fill that vacancy. The Heckler & Koch bullet, identical to the one that had killed my | p 186 KC 2006 |
a shoplifting charge. She supplied the weapon, a standard Heckler & Koch, apparently mislaid by the armoury. Leighton covered up for | p 260 KC 2006 |
and a copper steamer was a police-issue firearm, a Heckler & Koch machine gun of the type that had killed my | p 269 KC 2006 |
navigation and meteorology, weapons training with the Lee-Enfield rifle, Smith & Wesson revolver and Sten machine gun (I turned out to | p 162 ML 2008 |
prophecy. Luckily, there were other magazines like Galaxy and Fantasy & Science Fiction, where the short stories were set in the | p 166 ML 2008 |
better-paid post as deputy editor of the weekly journal Chemistry & Industry, published by the Society of Chemical Industry in Belgrave | p 182 ML 2008 |
and surrealism were a huge encouragement, my work at Chemistry & Industry kept me up to the mark about the latest | p 189 ML 2008 |
sadly for himself and his family, the editor of Chemistry & Industry, Bill Dick, killed himself with a gas poker and | p 190 ML 2008 |
with Mary's encouragement I gave up my job at Chemistry & Industry and became a full-time writer. Despite the many editions | p 191 ML 2008 |
status quo and the old. While I was at Chemistry & Industry I would regularly meet my fellow writer Michael Moorcock | p 192 ML 2008 |
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'03...................................1
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Tallis, the observer you're taking over from, went out in '03 for two years like yourself, and stayed fifteen. He'll show | p 74 WG 1959 |
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'40S..................................1
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leading patron of the fine arts. Like Garbo in the '40s and '50s, she flitted elusively through the gossip columns and | p 397 TSS 1962 |
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'41...................................1
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threadbare spine. ‘Jim, are you still reading the Digest? August '41, it has some good things in it ...‘ Basie relished every | p 225 ES 1984 |
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'44...................................1
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easy to shrug off. Your sister's children in Osaka in '44, the exigencies of war, I hate to plead them. Most | p 603 TB 1964 |
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'50S..................................2
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of the fine arts. Like Garbo in the '40s and '50s, she flitted elusively through the gossip columns and society pages | p 397 TSS 1962 |
have preferred it: in terms of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, the '50s school of highway engineering or, most soigne of all, the | p 70 THF 1969 |
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'70S..................................1
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most of them early period sonic dating back to the '70s, when sculptors produced an incredible sequence of grunting, clanking, barking | p 399 TSS 1962 |
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'95...................................1
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travelled spacehold. ‘Murak Reef,‘ he pointed out as the old '95 Chrysler half-track churned through the thick luminous ash silted over | p 74 WG 1959 |
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those who had died. Alain Delage. CFO, Eden-Olympia holding company. * Michel Charbonneau. Chairman, Eden-Olympia holding company. * Robert Fontaine. Chief | p 99 SC 2000 |
Eden-Olympia holding company. * Michel Charbonneau. Chairman, Eden-Olympia holding company. * Robert Fontaine. Chief executive, E-O administration. * Olga Carlotti. Manager | p 99 SC 2000 |
Eden-Olympia holding company. * Robert Fontaine. Chief executive, E-O administration. * Olga Carlotti. Manager of personnel recruitment, E-O. * Guy Bachelet | p 99 SC 2000 |
E-O administration. * Olga Carlotti. Manager of personnel recruitment, E-O. * Guy Bachelet. Chief of security, E-O. * Georges Vadim. General | p 99 SC 2000 |
personnel recruitment, E-O. * Guy Bachelet. Chief of security, E-O. * Georges Vadim. General manager, TV Centre, E-O. * Dominique Serrou | p 99 SC 2000 |
security, E-O. * Georges Vadim. General manager, TV Centre, E-O. * Dominique Serrou. Physician. * Professor Berthoud. Chief Pharmacist. Walter Beckman | p 99 SC 2000 |
Vadim. General manager, TV Centre, E-O. * Dominique Serrou. Physician. * Professor Berthoud. Chief Pharmacist. Walter Beckman. Chairman, Beckman Securities. Relocated | p 99 SC 2000 |
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*318..................................1
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There were a score more entries: PONT*AR*H*CV ALPH* L*PORIS A* *318 MYR*K LV* A**HA LEPORI* AD 13*6 KYR** XII ALPH* LEP*RIS | p 85 WG 1959 |
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*D....................................3
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stylized poses. Suddenly my eye caught: CYR*RK VII A*PHA LEP**IS *D 1317 Below was another, damaged but legible. AMEN*TEK LC*V *LPHA | p 85 WG 1959 |
entries read: MINYS-259 DELT* ARGUS AD 1874 TYLNYS-413 DELTA ARGUS *D 1874 There were fewer blanks; to the right of the | p 85 WG 1959 |
of the four stellar races. COPT*C LEAGUE MILV BETA TRIANGULI *D 1723 ISARI* LEAGUE *VII BETA *RIANGULI AD 1724 MAR-5-GO GAMMA | p 86 WG 1959 |
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*EPORIS...............................1
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later. M*MARYK XX*V A*PHA LEPORI* AD 1389 CYRARK IX ALPHA *EPORIS AD 1390 I went over to the megalith on my | p 85 WG 1959 |
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*LPHA.................................1
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*D 1317 Below was another, damaged but legible. AMEN*TEK LC*V *LPHA LE*ORIS AD 13** There were blanks among the letters, where | p 85 WG 1959 |