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...directors would be a confession is to To a boast: "I change with the audience. I have to get them into the theaters?that's my sole aim." He gets them in, and he makes them pay. That's why the Hong Kong film industry pronounces To as in "dough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fulltime Filmmaker | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

...nature. The new rule is that no one wins unless the company overall hits its targets--a mandate made imperative by Lucent's precarious state. So last year no one got bonuses. Once the company makes its numbers, it creates a kind of prize fund and divvies up the dough according to how a team performed and what each member contributed. A staff member on a successful team can make zilch or more than everybody else. But nobody gets anything unless his team wins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Work In Progress: Aggression Loses Some Of Its Punch | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...That's where the $300 comes in, or so the plan goes. Consumers bank the dough and immediately head out to stores, buying goods and services that put that $40 billion to work. Third-quarter (that's July to September) GDP growth registers an extra half-point or more, keeping the recession at bay, and George W. Bush comes off looking like his tax cut just saved the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uncle Sam Wants You to Spend Your Rebate | 7/17/2001 | See Source »

...adding some academic skills to the program; primarily pre-reading skills. It would require teachers to encourage more developmentally appropriate skills. In putting in pre-reading skills we get kids ready to go to school and hopefully, the gains would be sustained. As long as it's Play-Dough and growing plants and doing cute things, significant progress won't be made. A component of the program should be experiential learning, but they need to have exercises that will enable children to do better, to supply them with things they would learn in the home - pre-reading, colors and shapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Proposal: Head Start For All? | 7/12/2001 | See Source »

...each time she and Roque had intercourse. The suit was widely regarded as a symbolic gesture--until a Miami circuit-court judge this year awarded Martinez $27.2 million, to be garnished from Cuban assets frozen in the U.S. under the rules of the economic embargo. Locating and collecting that dough will be hard and may require an O.K. from the White House. But Martinez's lawyers were confident enough last week to begin pushing banks like J.P. Morgan Chase to cough it up. The banks have yet to reply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spy Who Raped Me | 7/2/2001 | See Source »

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