The movie rights went to Mike Nichols for a six-figure advance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brightening Western Star] Reference

So here I am, one of your fortyish readers with a six-figure income.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

You six-figure workers do not tend to think of union-type group action.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Manners: Polite evasion required with election-day snoops] Reference

Conroy continues to speak of a six-figure advance for his favorite student's real novel.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Mentor,' a memoir by Tom Grimes, reviewed by Michael Dirda] Reference

A six-figure advertising campaign and extensive social media push accompanies the campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jamie Henn: Big Oil launches bogus "citizen rallies" to fight regulation] Reference

Some of his paintings now fetch six-figure prices from collectors: art has made him wealthy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crashing To Earth] Reference

And she just landed a six-figure deal with HBO to let a film crew document the brothel's birth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Betting on the Studs] Reference

"" My hunch is we're into six-figure fees getting the seven kids out of the hospital, '' Heyl says.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magnificent Seven] Reference

What good is your six-figure salary if you can't reach a doctor when your child is running a fever?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Cities For Working Mothers, 2010] Reference

Who cares if there's no six-figure annual bonus when the land offers other incalculable compensations?.    From Wordnik.com.  [HOBBY FARMERS: THE NEW PEASANTS] Reference

And merely for collecting the loot on Sting's behalf, EMI pockets a hefty six-figure chunk off the top.    From Wordnik.com.  ['How Sweet It Is . . .'] Reference

In the end, my family offered to lend me what they could to take the principal out of the six-figure zone.    From Wordnik.com.  [STRUGGLING TO PAY THE MORTGAGE ON MY MIND] Reference

Each one of the top five, TubeMogul. com estimates, makes a six-figure salary from ads and product placement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will YouTube superstardom translate to TV?] Reference

"He could have easily gotten a Supreme Court clerkship and six-figure salary from any law firm," Harper says.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Audacity of Hope'] Reference

Most of her classmates had accepted offers from private law firms, lured by the promise of six-figure salaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Help Wanted] Reference

In 2007 he sold Lowfares to a (now defunct) lead-generation company for an amount in the "high six-figure range.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Inefficiency's Worst Enemy] Reference

I read it all over the place that doctors are making, you know, six-figure salaries, but I don't know any of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Many Americans Working Harder For Less] Reference

Platinum Motorsport has stripped and then modified six-figure stunners for the likes of Lil’ Wayne, Drake and T-Pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cars Of The Cash Kings] Reference

The six-figure salaries at City Hall have prompted investigations by Brown and the Los Angeles County district attorney.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell Salary Scandal: Outrage Remians Despite Council Vote To Cut Pay] Reference

"I think Bork is dangerous," Field said, and swiftly he made a six-figure contribution that helped derail the nomination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field Marshal] Reference

But fishermen who can make a six-figure income off crabs in a good year now are now idled – and worried about the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oiled Crabs Provide Evidence Of Tainted Gulf Food Web] Reference

It's the latest ploy to get rich quick: create a quirky blog, solicit a following and — voilà! — six-figure book deal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blog Books Go For Broke] Reference

An IRA adviser and vocal Roth advocate, Mr. Slott, 56 years old, says he converted nearly all his six-figure IRA in January.    From Wordnik.com.  [What the Experts Are Doing With Their Own Roth IRAs] Reference

Jonathan earned a six-figure salary as a lawyer at Napster, while Laurie worked leisurely hours as a fund-raising consultant.    From Wordnik.com.  [She Works, He Doesn't] Reference

She had been commanding a six-figure salary and living alone in a comfortable house in one of Seattle's upscale neighborhoods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bouncing Back (With A Little Help From Spike Lee)] Reference

In addition, the reality star has a deal to pen an autobiography — with a six-figure advance — called Here's the Situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is The Situation a 5 Million-Dollar Man?] Reference

Enter New York Representative Jerrold Nadler, who wants to exempt his own six-figure constituents from the tax hike he supports.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blue State Blues] Reference

Instead of three or four photographers trailing a celebrity, it could, in her case, be 30 or 40, each hoping for that six-figure shot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dying For The Age Of Diana] Reference

That, in turn, led to an admiring profile in Entertainment Weekly and a six-figure deal as a writer with Disney's Touchstone Television.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teen Envy In Hollywood] Reference

Q&A By Vikas SwarupDelhi's latest literary sensation, Swarup is a diplomat who earned a whopping six-figure advance for his first novel.    From Wordnik.com.  [SNAP JUDGMENT: BOOKS] Reference

Thanks to the tsunami of customers who refinanced, the company's mortgage brokers reaped windfalls, easily pulling in six-figure incomes.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Refinanced House] Reference

Vesco's six-figure cash contributions reportedly financed the Watergate burglars and prompted him to flee to Costa Rica in the mid-1970s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

The educational reform movement, with its philanthropic support, will find a place for her, probably in a healthy six-figure income range.    From Wordnik.com.  [A trail that Rhee shouldn't have hit] Reference

Until recently her résumé (mayoral assistant, nonprofit exec, hospital veep) was more impressive than his, as was her six-figure salary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Model Marriage] Reference