Word: balking
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...sure, there's longer-term concern about Disney's profit machines, ESPN and the Pixar alliance that produced Nemo. ESPN growth may stall as cable operators balk at the 20% annual-fee increases that ESPN has charged over the past several years. Pixar, run by Apple's Steve Jobs, has little incentive to keep giving Disney a full 50% share of the profits from Pixar pictures, along with a distribution fee, in exchange for splitting the costs. Several entertainment companies are offering Pixar more favorable terms than Disney's old deal, and Jobs is said to be getting peeved...
Guare’s source material always stays a hair’s breadth away from quite making sense. Why do the college students balk at tracking down their old classmates, then eventually not only hunt them down but tape-record their conversation? Why does Paul, when given a perfectly good chance to make it in the upper crust, turn it down? The play also features a subplot involving two Utah theater students that peters out without concluding, and an abrupt, unsatisfying ending...
Dartboard expects, however, that administrators of all stripes will balk at the costs. All Dartboard asks is that they take a little tour of Wellesley’s dorms. That adorable little school seems able to carry out major renovations in their buildings every few years; their carpet is clean, their bathroom tiles are whole and the paint on their walls isn’t peeling off. That’s funny, Dartboard doesn’t remember hearing about Wellesley’s $18 billion endowment…must not have been paying attention...
...root problem is, in the words of Joni Mitchell, "the star-maker machinery behind the popular song". The popular music industry produces music with a built-in sell-by date - is it any wonder that people balk at spending money on CDs that will last a lifetime? The answer is more artists, less commercial, and more inspired. Make music we want to keep, and we'll be buying the CDs. Mark Honman Durban, South Africa...
...VIDEOPHONES Engineers said the Picturephone, unveiled at the 1964 World's Fair, would replace standard phones by 2000. Forty years later, consumers still balk at the high price--and at losing the ability to take calls in their underwear...