Word: deal
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Actors are salesmen. Stories, characters, movies are their products, and they are the packaging and the pitch. That makes film stars the industry's supersalesmen. And no one closes a deal with more assurance or grace than George Clooney...
...realize the online appeal of his cat - who, incidentally, died in 1991 - as people snapped up domain names like KeyboardCat.com and PlayHimOffKeyboardCat.com So how did he finally make bank? Part of the money comes from a mobile-phone application, T-shirt designs and licensing agreements; he just inked a deal to let a group in Sweden remix Fatso's signature ditty. But the bulk of the money comes from YouTube. In July, Schmidt snagged an invite to the YouTube partner program, which overlays hit videos with related ads and gives the originator a cut of the revenue...
...opposition's outreach comes as the Administration weighs the next move in its diplomatic effort to resolve the nuclear standoff with Iran. Tehran has effectively rebuffed a confidence-building deal that would ship out the bulk of Iran's enriched-uranium stockpile to be converted into fuel rods for a medical-research reactor - which would also have added about a year to the time frame within which Iran could weaponize nuclear material. The deal would have offered more time for longer-term diplomatic negotiations. As a result, President Obama has begun trying to rally international support for a new round...
...Iran's refusal to accept the deal that required shipping out nuclear material for reprocessing in Russia and France, say Iranian analysts, is partly linked to the divide between Ahmadinejad and Khamenei. The President, they say, is more interested than the Supreme Leader is in improving relations with Washington, a major coup that could earn Ahmadinejad badly needed international legitimacy. But he refuses to compromise on Iran's right to enrich uranium, a position with strong support from across the Iranian political spectrum...
...Khamenei, meanwhile, is said to reject improving relations with the United States as anathema to essence of the Islamic Revolution. At the same time, analysts say he was initially more open to a compromise on a short-term deal...