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...also focused on the role that men play in parenting and childcare. She stressed the importance of male role models in young children’s lives, insisting that men need to be equally involved in parenthood and must contribute more than just “sperm and a checkbook...
...still has no organized distribution network. Cinema may have been invented in Europe, but since the advent of talking pictures, Hollywood has reigned supreme. That global domination of the $52 billion cinema industry now relies on a vicious economic cycle: as the cost of filmmaking rises, studios balance the checkbook by casting their nets wider, showing their films in more countries to more paying customers; movies become high-tech spectacles and stars demand higher salaries; and so the cost of filmmaking rises, and the cycle begins anew. Europe's industry - with its dependence on dubbing or subtitling for foreign audiences...
Roberts, 44, keeps his ego in check and his checkbook handy. The trim, bespectacled executive is renowned as a shrewd bargain hunter and corporate strategist. "He's one of the most likable people, but whoever sits on the other side of the bargaining table should have a healthy dose of fear," says Terry McGuirk, vice chairman of Turner Broadcasting and a longtime friend. Roberts, an all-American squash player at the University of Pennsylvania, has a "black belt in strategy," says McGuirk...
...payoff, the survey found, is significant. Those checkbook balancers, for example, have more savings, less credit-card debt and fewer financial worries than people who choose to rely on just their ATM receipts for confirmation of what's in their accounts...
...that financial planners often advise and many individuals find impossible to achieve. Happiness means taking precautions, like having life insurance, disability insurance, a three-to-six-month emergency cushion and a will. And as antiquated as it may sound, it means taking the time to balance your checkbook once a month...