And while the most successful agents can make millions each year, many take in far less.
In the DC lobbying world, ex-senators can basically write their own tickets and make millions.
The good old days when anyone could make millions flipping homes in their spare time are over.
But those illusionists are amateurs compared with the federal government, which can make millions of Americans vanish.
They make millions in revenue in television, radio, marketing, sponsorship and merchandising and football success triggers heavy alumni giving.
Online ordering makes it possible to carry out a large number of transactions and make millions at one go.
On the way up, salaries inflate, entrepreneurs make millions and venture capitals scramble for a piece of the action.
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Public anger is inflamed by the knowledge that the general's cronies make millions from importing fuel at emergency prices.
Especially the ones who make millions of dollars representing asbestos claimants and share a lot of that money with Democratic candidates.
They claimed Raj Rajaratnam, founder of hedge fund Galleon Group, took advantage of friends and employees to illegally make millions of dollars.
Microsoft eventually copied these metaphors and brought them to the mass market, thus helping to make millions of computer users more productive.
It accuses him of asset stripping, of ruining a dream for thousands of Americans in order to make millions of dollars for himself.
It is one of the options being considered by the local authority in a bid to make millions of pounds of budget cuts.
We continue to make millions of offshore acres available to industry.
It is very difficult to get game developers to stream their biggest and newest releases when they can make millions more selling them in stores.
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"Everybody is jumping on the tequila bandwagon because they think they can make millions, " says Julio Bermejo, beverage director at two tequila bars in San Francisco.
Just as players in the NFL can make millions one season only to be released the next, Wall Street pay is high because it's so ephemeral.
The Shooter is judicious about the details of his story and hasn't been involved in dramatic books, movies or video games that will make millions for some.
Prosecutors disagreed, saying Newman tried to make millions of dollars in illicit profits for Diamondback to boost his compensation and increase his standing and reputation at the fund.
Citi didn't do any of this, but falsely certified that it did, so it could make millions by turning what should have been subprime loans into FHA loans.
Actors who make millions for film roles often see their rates drop to five figures per episode for a short TV season, assuming they can even land a part.
"If I could find a boxer as good as Howard Winstone I would make millions, " said the great trainer Angelo Dundee after Winstone outclassed his Cuban fighter Baby Louis.
He believes his distance from Silicon Valley's occasionally myopic thinking, and lots of experimentation, have helped him figure out a way to make millions inserting utilitarian ads into everyday software.
These guys are traders and the same risk taking they used to make millions (billions) will either set them free, minimize their prison time or send them to prison for decades.
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Seeing CEOs make millions for being fired and even for losing money may be hard to stomach, but it is collateral damage in the economics of motivating them to run their companies well.
Essentially, when the academics do all the thinking, all the writing, all the editing, for free, how come three companies can make millions upon millions a year selling it all back to them?
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Because anyone you put in the position to be the gatekeeper of your fund, to control which money managers you hire and fire, can, by virtue of his position, make millions on the side.
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Dale Sheehan, Interpol's training director, said it was essential to "take back the game of football" from criminals, who he said were able to make millions in profits with "little risk of being detected".
"A few people will make millions, " he predicted.
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In defense of its latest venture, Google, led by Chief Executive Eric Schmidt , has maintained its intentions are to "make millions of books easier for people to find and buy, " by cataloguing them online.
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