The actor scored big in 2003 when he landed the lead role on the decidedly unhip NCIS. The show has been a huge hit and eight years latest it can still attract a whopping 20 million viewers.

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The Great Lakes basin contains a huge treasure, about 20 percent of the world's and a whopping 95 percent of the nation's fresh surface water.

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Sitting on a huge cash hoard, it will increase its meager 8-cent quarterly dividend and also give shareholders another whopping special payout, as it did in December 2004.

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