Word: money
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...estimates that at least 1,000 of the 8,000 Mohawks currently living on the reserve are involved in the trade. The reservation has an unemployment rate of almost 40%. "There are some big guys in it, maybe 100, but mostly it is kids or anyone else who needs money to fix a car or go on a date," says Little Tree. "They can pick up $500 for a few minutes' work...
During the six years it took Tajiri to finish Pokemon, GameFreak nearly went broke. For several months, he barely had enough money to pay his employees. Five people quit when he told them how dire the financial conditions were. Tajiri didn't pay himself, but lived off his father. Perhaps the tensions were creative. Explaining his goal, Tajiri says, "The important thing was that the monsters had to be small and controllable. They came in a capsule, like a monster within yourself, like fear or anger...
Where do you think the money winds up when a gift certificate goes unredeemed? You probably assume that it's a windfall for the store that collected the cash and never had to deliver anything. But that's not supposed to be the case. After a waiting period--usually three to five years--the retailer is supposed to give the unspent money to the state, which is supposed to find the owner and give back the cash...
...will soon make similar inroads in the consumer market. His reasoning: as computer prices spiral downward, the price PC manufacturers pay to license Windows grows proportionately, cutting into their meager margins. PC makers will "start defecting en masse to Linux," Raymond predicts, "because they can no longer make money partnered with Microsoft...
Beyond the perception that campaign financing is a sort of legalized bribery by Big Money interests who seek to influence politicians [NATION, Nov. 1], there is another problem with campaign funds. They are used mostly to purchase TV advertising. A mature and leading democracy like America should vote on the basis of reasoned argument, not because of cynical, low-minded commercials. Can you imagine 30-second spots as a replacement for the Federalist papers? Televised political ads are sold to our nation the same way as soap for dirty laundry. Like tobacco smoking, gambling and other expensive, unhealthy addictions, political...