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Those assets include household names like CBS, Paramount, MTV, VH-1 and Nickelodeon in addition to properties such as UPN, TNN, Showtime, Simon & Schuster publishing and others, giving the company cradle-to-grave demographics. For example, CBS draws the 50-plus crowd, which will be more than offset by Nickelodeon's and MTV's decisively Gen Y and younger constituency. "My kids will respect me more because I'm involved with a channel [MTV] they actually watch," says CBS president Leslie Moonves...
...Location. This is rule No. 1, and it's so important that if you get it right, it will offset almost any home-buyer mistake. The Clintons did fine. They bought in a top-rated school district near reliable mass transit into Manhattan. They can be reasonably sure of getting their money out, reasonably quickly, anytime they sell...
...least last year [the liberal leaning] was offset by Colin Powell," Campbell says...
...efficiency, innovation and customer satisfaction. A study at the University of Illinois found that the Star airline alliance was holding down prices as much as 36% below those offered by nonmembers on routes where passengers made connections. In the view of optimists, consolidation will always be offset by the limitless demands of individual taste and the enduring lure of the unknown...
Battipaglia adds that "wage increases will be more than offset by productivity gains, despite the remarkably low U.S. unemployment rate--4.2% in May, matching a 29-year low--that might be expected to force pay and prices up faster. Employers will have less trouble than the jobless rate might suggest in finding the workers they need, he says, for three reasons. First, "you have had a tremendous amount of downsizing that freed up a lot of individuals who are now coming back" into the work force. Also, "second wage earners"--primarily wives and husbands--who may not have been counted...