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...plan at Pressplay buys you unlimited downloads, but you can't move the songs to your portable MP3 player or burn copies of them onto a CD, and you can listen to them only so long as you're a Pressplay subscriber. Miss a payment, and the files lock up. For $8 more a month, Pressplay gives you 10 "portable" downloads that are free of those constraints. But compare that with the roughly infinite number of unrestricted, unconstrained, infinitely copyable downloads that Kazaa offers for roughly nothing, and you can see that Pressplay has an uphill battle on its hands...
...Kirch's networks to forward their political views. German media giant Bertelsmann didn't bid because of antitrust problems. The only other serious bidder, a German publisher, didn't have Saban's TV experience and faced regulatory pressures. By late February, Saban's mostly cash offer was a virtual lock...
...Yankee, go home!' call is clearly also linked to the nervousness among major oil-producers such as the Saudis over the long-term consequences of a U.S. lock on Iraqi oil. And the frequent insistence that the United Nations, rather than the U.S., should have the central role in the reconstruction of the war-ravaged nation may also be a coded way of saying, "Let's prevent the Americans from taking control of the oilfields...
...unworkable," so bound by restrictions and conditions, said one pilot privately, that he planned to put his gun away when he finished the program and never take it on a flight. The pilots have also vigorously complained about how their .40-caliber semiautomatic handguns must be carried: in a lock-box, inside a bag, until they get into the cockpit and lock the door...
...from binding to non-binding early admissions policies, will snatch up its best applicants, surely the answer is not to put a further stranglehold on those students. A school with our prestige can afford to allow prospective students the maximum in flexibility. Other schools may have to scrounge desperately lock in the students they invite to attend; we don’t need to handcuff our prefrosh to the right choice...