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...Damon called then Universal chairwoman Stacey Snider and pitched it. "I said, 'I don't want to hear it,'" says Snider, who is now at DreamWorks. But she did. Damon recalls, "There was a long pause, and she said, 'S___, that's good.'" Snider ultimately agreed to spend an extra $200,000 to film a new ending, and within days Marshall secured locations and flew Damon from Lake Como for a reshoot. "As much as I adore Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass, it was Frank who I could look at and say, 'Can you really accomplish this?'" says Snider...
Should Nike be worried? Both Nike and Adidas say the Starburys haven't cut into sales, so the big boys have no plans for cheap sneaks. These companies insist their $100-plus kicks offer extra features that help a player's performance. "It would be tough for us to go to that price point because consumers expect so much from our product," says Travis Gonzalez, an Adidas basketball spokesman...
...least half are students, retirees or second-job holders--more opportunity and more attention paid. And, of course, they want more pay. The company raised wages in 1,200 stores last year and expanded its 10% employee discount on nonfoods to include produce. Long-term employees asked for an extra week's pay instead of an extra week's vacation. (They got it.) Workers with less experience asked for quarterly, not annual, bonuses if their store met targets. (They got it.) Wal-Mart, in turn, wanted help available at peak demand in the stores, meaning nights and weekends. (Of course...
...diminishing quality of hires are altogether false, as is the speculation linking the quality of instruction to “tightened spending within the program’s budget.” The measures of fiscal restraint undertaken in the past two months, primarily around social events spending, extra compensation practices, and publication costs, have had nothing to do with salaries or hiring...
...bottle. 4. If you’ve done the following movie-moments at a baseball game: Take one if you ate a hotdog, two if you worked on your laptop, and three if you jumped the outfield fence. Four if it was the Green Monster. 5. Take an extra shot if your glass has the Sox logo on it. 6. Cheers to every time Ben picks the Sox over Lindsey. We know where his true love lies...