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Regardless, the young Britney will attempt to slow her inevitable commercial erosion with Crossroads. But Britney’s Madonna and ’NSYNC-singing, dancing, mother reuniting performance is unlikely to make a huge box office dent. However, even the comparatively unpopular Mandy Moore found a certain amount of success with the syrupy minister’s-daughter movie A Walk to Remember. In the end, though, it all comes down to Britney’s daring decision to attempt acting, and her poise as a representative of the New Millennium woman and as a role model...
...those who have a say in the affairs of the university. The film reports that then-President Neil L. Rudenstine threatened to resign before giving in to the demands of the protesters, and then it goes on to argue that PSLM’s demands would be but a dent in Harvard’s massive endowment. Occupation presents the protesters as engaging in an ideological battle against a reactionary and frustratingly immobile monolith. Previous attempts at negotiating with administrators, the film shows, were met by the apathetic drone of bureaucratic jargon...
Before the anthrax scare, Jupiter predicted that companies would increase their spending on e-mail marketing by 80% in 2001, but that only 3.5% of the new spending would come from direct-mail campaigns. He doesn't expect the anthrax scare to make a permanent dent in those numbers. And even if more poisonous letters emerge in the months ahead, they're not likely to wipe out direct mail. Says Blank: "People are just very attached to paper...
...power and the lowest pay in society: maintaining their pay is the humane thing to do," says Maria Zeneida Angara-Collinson, Philippine Consul-General in Hong Kong. "If the government is looking at this as a way out of the economic slump, it's not going to make a dent...
...reduction in maids' salaries would make a dent in the Philippines, where remittances from workers abroad contribute $6 billion to the local economy. News of the proposed wage adjustment had Philippine labor minister Patricia Santo Thomas rushing to the territory in defense of her countrymen and women. (Her Indonesian counterpart will visit next month.) Hong Kong Manpower Secretary Fanny Law Fan Chiu-fun told her the decision would be made according to three factors: the rise and fall of the economy, wages of comparable workers, and unspecified "political considerations...