Word: lose
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...people will in effect just pay a subscription rate to have access to a network." And while all-you-can-talk (or watch, or surf) lines could be a dream for consumers, they will be a nightmare for the mega-Bells, which must add new subscribers faster than they lose revenue to new competitors and pricing pressures. Some firms, like AT&T, hope to find lucre in international markets, where telephone demand is growing in the triple digits. Says AT&T CEO C. Michael Armstrong: "Societies are attempting to rise in the economic order, and multinationals are reaching...
...Whether Shayler has the skinny or not, the allegations come as a blow to British intelligence's attempt to lose its "license to kill" image. Only last week, MI5 -- the domestic spy service -- issued a booklet pointing out that while it holds 13,000 active files on British residents, it "does not kill people or arrange their assassination." Now it seems MI6, MI5's foreign-espionage counterpart, will be forced to bring out a similar glossy pamphlet denying everything. Mr. Bond will be most displeased...
...another job is an imposition. "These families need every ounce of their effort to pay for rent and food," he says. "An extra job could be the straw that breaks the camel's back." Others fear that if the IRS rules the labor is revenue, some people may lose some of their Medicaid, food stamps or earned-income tax credit. To avoid that problem, hospital attorneys insisted that the program be voluntary. No money changes hands. A task not completed is the hospital's loss...
...Picture Perfect, Fools Rush In, Romy & Michele's High School Reunion) typically bump their heads on the $30 million ceiling. Teen movies still serve an old function: to caulk the crevices in the release schedule and create cheap product that, if it doesn't make a bundle, won't lose one either. Like I Was a Teenage Werewolf and the Elvis films of 40 years ago, they are reliable B movies...
...Levistre, 54, told Britain's Sunday People newspaper (no relation to PEOPLE magazine): "Thinking about it carefully, I now understand how I could have helped cause the crash. I was close behind the car, as much as 10 meters, and my driving may have caused it to swerve and lose control." Levistre, a truck driver by profession, said that last Aug. 31 he was speeding in a dark gray Ford Ka through the Paris underpass where the princess's car crashed. His comments came in an interview with investigators working for journalist Nicholas Farrell, who is writing a book...