Its duties include everything from subsidizing multimillion-dollar projects to riding herd on companies that sell land through the mails.

Bureaucrats reacted to this initiative with bewilderment, while many local residents were suspicious: an international multimillion-dollar project had never been stopped by a forest before.

The company would not reveal the costs of the new spaces, saying only that they are multimillion-dollar projects.

Early this year, the Supreme Court stopped the computerization of the elections after it found irregularities in the multimillion-dollar project.

And not that goodwill is not always there, but these get to be multimillion-dollar projects and I'm a little guy coming in.

Other multimillion-dollar projects that have not worked out include the Transamazonian Highway and a series of nuclear plants.

When the time comes to raise funds for the multimillion-dollar project, Mr. Sutton is confident the community support will be there.

"It's just one of several multimillion-dollar projects either being discussed or under construction."

But this multimillion-dollar project is hardly a stab at humor.

This much is clear: 58 games into the 1992 season the Mets' multimillion-dollar project has not come together.