Word: payday
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...need to stop the poisonous hold that payday and predatory lenders have on our families,” he said. “We need to crack down on credit card companies...
...unfriendly to the band for years (its last Top 10 hit was 1997's Discotheque, which peaked at No. 10), so the group decided to cooperate with Apple on a customized black iPod and the now ubiquitous Vertigo silhouette ads, though they didn't do it solely for a payday. "A big car company once offered us $25 million for one of our songs," says Bono, "and we turned them down. No money changed hands in this deal. Downloading is the future, and we want to be King Canute. Let's get on the surfboard and ride the wave...
...making two chipshots that the Hershey’s Kick For A Million contestant would have even thought were a breeze. I mean he has to nail it from 50 out: move him in 16 to 28 yards, and he’d be a lock for the big payday...
...first, the going was slow. By Tuesday, Marines entered the city but were stuck in the industrialized north and a few other pockets just inside the cordon. Help from the Iraqi security forces turned out to be minimal: following payday last week, most of them fled. That forced Marines to man the cordon, reducing the number available to scour Fallujah...
...story in motion seems too thin to carry the message-laden freight. The broader social milieu--the early civil-rights movement, the J.F.K. assassination--is merely introduced, not dramatized. The musical aims for operatic tragedy and--with the help of Pinkins' steely, square-shouldered power--keeps promising a big payday. But too often, we can't help feeling a little shortchanged. --By Richard Zoglin