Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anyone familiar with the litany of distress knows, choice in some form is appealing. Falling test scores, rising dropout rates and poor teaching demand drastic change...
...anyone be worth that much money to put a ball through a hoop? The answer is yes, at least the way economists keep score. It's a simple case of supply and demand. The inventory of 7-ft. 1-in., 300-lb. human rockslides like Shaq is not deep; you will not find one at Wal-Mart. That's why the Houston Rockets' pivotman, Hakeem Olajuwon, got a $55 million, five-year contract extension and another African-born center, Dikembe Mutombo, signed with the Atlanta Hawks for a five-year, $50 million deal. The Miami Heat is on the verge...
...other hand, the supply of money provided by television networks, cable stations and ticket buyers is expanding. "Team quality generates demand, and demand determines ticket prices. The better the team, the more intense the demand for a fixed number of seats. And that's why stars are worth so much," notes economist and sports expert Roger Noll of Stanford University. Last year the N.B.A. took in some $1.4 billion, excluding licensed merchandise, and its revenues are increasing some 15% annually. N.B.A. commissioner David Stern's global strategy has helped boost demand for the game. The N.B.A. is becoming as popular...
Levin's grand theory--one shared by his megamedia peers--is that in the coming radically deregulated era, production married to distribution will allow a company to create, seamlessly, new products for the digital age. As the dial evolves into hundreds of channels and on-demand services, the cable business has regressed to brutal trench warfare over ever slimmer slivers of market share; the game is to control maximum channels in order to ensure a sufficient outlet for ever growing streams of new and recycled programming. Thus Disney buys Capital Cities/ABC; Viacom buys Paramount and launches...
...weakest link, according to those involved in the discussions, is Schwimmer. He is said to be balking at a longer-term contract, which Warner would surely demand in exchange for more generous remuneration. An aspiring movie star, Schwimmer may have something better to do, but it's probably not The Pallbearer...