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...firm. "But here you have enormous egos who think they can work wonders with this company; so anything goes." Sometimes the egos get it right: Wall Street hooted at Ted Turner for paying $1.2 billion for the MGM film library in 1986, but today that price is considered a bargain...
...inmates and about 15% of state prisoners receive adequate treatment. Yet well- structured, prison-based antidrug programs have produced remarkable results. The rearrest rate for those who endure yearlong therapeutic programs is about one-third the rate for those who don't participate. And in-prison treatment is a bargain: it costs $28,000 a year to house one inmate, but adding comprehensive drug treatment costs only about $3,000 annually per prisoner...
...deal appears to be a bargain for everyone. Russia will get about $1 billion in revenues during the next decade, creating about 60,000 jobs in its depressed aerospace industry, in return for supplying hardware and expertise. The U.S. and its other partners in the project -- Japan, Canada, Italy and the European Space Agency -- will save an estimated $2 billion over the same period, bringing the expected space-station price tag down to $29 billion...
SOUTH AFRICA: Grand Bargain...
...trying to crush her, Stewart decides. Ada has only two loves in this bleak world: her nine-year-old daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) and her piano. After Stewart cavalierly sells the instrument to his neighbor Baines (Keitel), Ada strikes a bargain with Baines. Under the guise of giving him lessons, she will buy the piano back from him, one black key at a time, by allowing certain sexual favors. One key is hers if she raises her skirt; two keys to let him touch her bare arm; five; 10 . . . Ada can win what she needs by meting out what...