Word: paydays
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...payday. Over the past few years the popularity of mixed martial arts, the full-combat sport that combines elements of boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, jujitsu and other disciplines, has exploded. One card in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the most prominent men's MMA organization, whose fights are shown on Spike TV and pay-per-view, drew more television viewers than the baseball playoffs in the all-important 18-to-34-year-old-male demographic. The UFC surpassed HBO's 2006 pay-per-view boxing take and is probably worth more than $1 billion. So although the sight of two women...
...also good business. While traditional banks have struggled to attract the unbanked without outrageous charges, check cashers and payday loaners raked in an estimated $11 billion in fees from this $1 trillion economy. Cleveland-based KeyBank, for example, has attracted just 5,500 new customers in the past two years with its own check-cashing business, but has yet to make a profit from it. One problem is that people who have never had a bank account are distrustful of banks as a whole and feel unwelcome in institutions where they could not qualify for a checking account...
...Alvelda, 42, says talent flocks to the company, where the average age is 34, lured by the prospect of working the leading edge--and a big payday when the company goes public or gets bought out. Employee numbers, known by everyone, are status symbols to show who got in early. Alvelda is No. 1. And as he searches for new "superstars" to add to his team, MobiTV surges ahead of revenue projections and subscriber count, chasing the world's 2.2 billion mobile users--starting with the 221 million wireless users in the U.S., where 2.3% (5.1 million) subscribe to mobile...
...danger, Mohamed says he never thinks about going back to being a cabbie, the job he held before becoming an ambulance driver. As long as the violence keeps up, this work is steadier. Ask Mohammed what his best day on the job has been, and he answers without hesitation: "Payday...
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