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...costs. GM also cut its advertising spending in half this year, which doesn't exactly stimulate sales. Bottom line: the next 12 to 18 months are perilous for both companies - and they'll need a modest improvement in sales just to survive. Ford, meanwhile, has played a difficult hand quite deftly. Despite a drop in sales volume, it has outperformed the market during the second quarter, reclaiming second place in total sales from Toyota and closing in on GM. (See 10 ways your job will change...
McMahon's career would be unimaginable to anyone who lived before TV existed: his Zen-like job was mainly to be Carson's companion. On one hand, McMahon was the brash voice of Tonight ("Heeeeeeeeere's Johnny!") who bantered with Carson and gamely inhabited his yuk-it-up, good-guy persona...
...even if it doesn't quite live up to the NYAFF blurb: "As big, meaty and satisfying as a flame-roasted leg of wild boar, Warlords is the kind of movie you tear into with relish, wiping its bloody juices off your chin with the back of your hand as you sit on a throne made of the bones of your enemies...
...read my books so they know how I'll play. They recognize me from TV, and they want to play a pot with me, so they call. It's like I have a bull's-eye on my forehead. I might be a three-to-one favorite to win hand after hand, but there's just no way that I'm going to hold enough good hands to win the whole thing. I can't overcome the magnitude of the numbers. I'd go so far as to say that it's almost impossible for me to ever win again...
...ephemera of romance and happiness as defined by and for its adult principals, the intact, two-parent family remains our cultural ideal, but it exists under constant assault. It is buffeted by affairs and ennui, subject to the eternal American hope for greater happiness, for changing the hand you dealt yourself. Getting married for life, having children and raising them with your partner - this is still the way most Americans are conducting adult life, but the numbers who are moving in a different direction continue to rise. Most notably, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in May that...