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...industries successfully lobbied for the deregulation of children's television, allowing them to base animated TV shows around popular toys like G. I. Joe and the Care Bears. Only recently, however, did Hollywood start producing toy-inspired movies for theaters. As the cost of making and marketing movies has gotten so high, producers have started searching for movies with built-in brand recognition. "We're all looking around and saying, 'What about properties that have withstood the test of time?'" says Avi Arad, a former toy designer and Marvel Studios executive who is a producer of the Bratz movie. Parents...
...gotten ugly out there. the recent panic sparked by the global credit crisis has triggered the most serious market turbulence since the aftermath of the dotcom mania in 2001 and 2002. The Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and other central banks were forced to pump over $150 billion into the world's banking systems to stabilize short-term lending markets and reassure worried investors...
...agenda bordering on vendetta," recalled Mark Kreitman, assistant director of the enforcement division, who was his former professor at Georgetown and one of his supervisors at the SEC. Aguirre claims all these accusations were concocted after the fact, and were never part of his paper record. He had just gotten a raise, and had glowing evaluations before the meltdown, he notes; as for his "unprofessional" deposition of Samberg, Hilton Foster, a now retired staff trainer, wanted to include it as a model in his course material. And in fact, the final Senate report discredited the allegations against Aguirre, concluding that...
...their island. The oil boom has driven up prices for everything from housing and food to transport - a five-minute taxi ride from the airport can break $20. Expat oil executives can pay without a problem, but locals struggle. "It's something crazy how high prices have gotten here," says Lisitsyn, speaking over the shouts of happy couples outside the cramped $745-a-month single room office his organization occupies upstairs from the municipal wedding hall. "But at the same time we still have people just barely surviving on fishing...
...mayor's oft-proclaimed affinity for all things Iowa is particularly noteworthy as it wasn't so long ago that Iowans were wondering if he'd gotten lost on the way to their state. In June Giuliani announced that he would skip the G.O.P. straw poll in Ames. Until just a few weeks ago, he was spending more of his time in places like Florida and California, which have moved their primaries forward onto the heels of the early contests. Giuliani seemed to be calculating that he would have a better go of it in big states, where his 9/11...