Word: collections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quickly (usually in six weeks or less), and doing distribution and television advertising himself. D-D creates its own commercials for its films, and pummels local markets with five-to seven-day TV blitzes before a film opens. Another innovation is the "host" system. Under it, D-D representatives collect the company's share of box-office receipts nightly at each theater, speeding cash flow. Says Dayton: "The faster you can get your money out, the sooner you can go into production on your next film...
...donations to all of these funds are "irrevocable." The donor cannot collect interest for a few years and then withdraw the money. After the last beneficiary dies, the principle belongs exclusively to Harvard, Brown said...
...Hughes and screened all his communications. According to Stewart and Margulis, the executive aides acted in effect as his keepers, at salaries ranging as high as $110,000 a year. By contrast, Stewart and Margulis performed menial jobs at relatively low salaries?about $25,000 a year. (They will collect one-third each of the profits from the Phelan book.) They were on the perimeter of the inner circle, but, especially in Stewart's case, they had constant access to the boss; they saw and heard a great deal...
...plus royalties, Schiller has arranged a package deal that includes a TV dramatization of Gilmore's life and death for ABC's Movie of the Week. As money comes in, along with celebrity, so do bills. Last week a Massachusetts insurance company filed suit against Gilmore to collect $45,818 in death benefits for one of his shooting victims. Even so, there will be money left over that Gilmore has promised to parcel out among his family, to the relatives of his victims and to such favorite charities as a Pennsylvania society of handicapped artists. Gilmore...
Harvard will continue to allow women employees to collect sick pay during absences for pregnancy despite yesterday's Supreme Court ruling that permits employers to refuse to compensate women for maternity leave, a University official said yesterday...