Word: gluts
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...that. There's a lot of us out there." Scott Rudin, The Hours' producer, sees the Christmas-to-Valentine season as "a good time for movies that aren't entirely aimed at teenage boys." Playwright David Hare, whom Rudin hired to adapt Michael Cunningham's novel, notes the glut of year-end prestige movies: "All the intelligent films come out at exactly the same time, because they're thought to be Oscar material. And the more intelligent films are more likely to have good roles for women...
...giddiest high-riders are beginning to question how much real estate speculation Shanghai can take. Yes, luxury-residential rents increased 15% last year, but in the next three years the number of new apartments in the city will double due to frenzied construction, leading to a surefire property glut...
...early 2001, overexuberance for the telecom market had created a glut of companies like WorldCom, and earnings started to fall. Cooper was aware of the decline but not of the creative accounting fix. At WorldCom her department handled operational audits, which set company budget standards and evaluate performance, among other things. Financial audits, which verify the accuracy of a company's financial reports, were the province of the then esteemed independent firm Arthur Andersen...
...Yahoo! might have the edge right now, but that could evaporate as fast as Colin Powell's opposition to war in Iraq. Indeed, Google News is an innovative stab at solving the info-glut problem that plagues so many of us. In a world of proliferating headlines from around the globe, news aggregation might be best left to the machines. After all, can any human editor really keep pace? The appetite for international news exacerbates the problem. Al Jazerra was an unknown news service for years and now suddenly Americans are interested in its reporting from Qatar. And that plays...
...Digital's parent companies, Carlton and Granada. And although the Football League has signed a new four-year deal with BSkyB, its $145 million price tag falls far short of the original - as a result, some clubs have released players in order to cut wage bills. With a glut of talent on the market and clubs facing shrinking revenues, Summerbee and McKinlay - who hope they will be picked up by Leicester City on a permanent basis - could be the first of many footballers taking to the pitch for love alone...