Word: chunk
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...money last autumn as thanks for his country's membership in the anti-Iraq coalition. The Turks claim they lost millions of dollars in fees by shutting down an Iraqi oil pipeline that cut through Turkish soil. U.S. officials are pressuring the Kuwaitis to pony up a substantial chunk of the aid before President Bush visits Turkey later this month...
Agency executives can be forgiven if they jump every time the phone rings these days. At any moment, an enviable client may invite a pitch or a major chunk of their business may walk out. When New York's N W Ayer celebrated its victory last week in capturing the $30 million Bayer aspirin account, the agency was still smarting from the loss two weeks earlier of the $65 million J.C. Penney account. Advertisers are flexing their spending muscle more aggressively than ever before. Even longtime clients feel little loyalty anymore to their agencies. As a result, ad firms...
...Shoemaker and his colleagues see it, a giant comet broke apart as it whipped around the sun. Over time, chunks of the comet separated but remained strung out in the same orbit. Then 65 million years ago, as the earth passed through the comet's orbit, it collided with the largest chunk, causing the Great Extinction. Perhaps only a year or two later, as the earth again entered the trail of cometary debris, it met a second, smaller chunk. Where did the second impact occur? This time no search is necessary. Shoemaker points to a well-known crater...
...chunk! Ka-chunk! Every day more than 200 million credit cards slide in and out of charge machines across the U.S. Ka-chunk! Americans used plastic to charge $480 billion last year, at a rate of about $1 million a minute. The typical American charge customer carries nine cards and owes more than $2,000 on them. Despite interest rates averaging close to 19%, many cardholders are blase about paying hundreds of dollars a year in interest, plus an annual fee for the privilege of doing...
...recession has reduced the viewer response rate for some infomercials, but at the same time it has made the lengthy commercials even more attractive to stations: when ad revenues are slack, it is hard to turn down an advertiser who wants to purchase a big chunk of time. "The more financially pressed stations are, the less they're offended by infomercials," says Rader Hayes, a consumer economist at the University of Wisconsin. In a survey released in January by the National Association of Television Program Executives, 90% of station officials who responded said they have run at least some infomercials...