Word: dealing
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Alarcon: After the disappearance of the socialist world, you had to deal with the real world or move to another planet. While it is true that we have some things in our reality that are not to our liking--the dual economy, the circulation of dollars--that was done out of necessity. But it is something that we should try to eliminate, the sooner the better...
Winning might not be much better. Although the entertainment business often makes deals that seem right out of Fantasyland, the money that ABC, CBS and Fox are paying demonstrates just how desperate the network-television business has become. CBS paid $4 billion to get back in the game, intercepting rights to the American Football Conference previously held by NBC. A day later ABC, the No. 3 network, outbid NBC with a $4.4 billion deal to retain Monday Night Football. Its cable unit, ESPN (which shared Sunday-night games with Turner Broadcasting's TNT for eight years), dropped $4.8 billion...
...called the contract bids "reckless," saying it wasn't worth more than $340 million a year to keep the AFC rights, the weakest in the package, or more than $500 million a year to obtain Monday Night, considered the strongest. "There was no chance of making money in this deal," said Dick Ebersol, president of NBC Sports, after the announcements. "I'll guess [it's] a loss of $150 million to $175 million a year. We simply don't believe in being associated with that kind of loss." The Peacock will have to console itself with other sports, such...
Solomon explained, "It really was time to try to deal with it so that everybody could move on, because Nancy has moved...
...turn we did, with our hearts and souls. In the town of Green Bay, it is now not only possible but unremarkable to be buried in a green-and-gold casket, if not in an entire Packers uniform. Philadelphia has had to build a courtroom into Vets Stadium to deal with fans who, in their enthusiasm, have taken to firing flare guns into the field...