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...Phantom Actor...
...thirds of all business activity, and with record low unemployment, better pay and the effervescent stock market, Americans spent 5.3% more in 1999 than they did the year before, the largest gain in 15 years. Business spending jumped 8.3% as companies not only sought to protect themselves from phantom Y2K problems but also stocked up on goods to keep holiday customers happy. The Y2K fizzle will permit companies to redirect their investments to capital spending, which serves to increase corporate productivity and boost profits...
...seconds for the camera in order to have video of the subject "working." And there are far more egregious, low-tech and common promos on news programs. When a morning show or news broadcast shills its corporate parent's sitcoms or movies, it's crowding out news. CBS's phantom ad crowded out, well, more advertising...
...Broadway impresario, who has spent a half-century creating musicals such as Evita, Cabaret, Company and Phantom of the Opera, was appalled to learn that the June ceremony's network telecast did not include any mention of authors, designers, directors or choreographers...
...fact, many of the titles listed here offer an experience superior to going to the movies. Lucas Arts' Star Wars game far outshines the altogether dismal film prequel offered in The Phantom Menace. Gamemakers are starting to pull in big names. James Earl Jones, for example, stars in Command & Conquer's latest outing, while David Bowie is the driving force behind the forthcoming Omikron. Indeed, game designers are starting to act like directors--guys like Sid Meier (Alpha Centauri) and Adrian Smith (Tomb Raider) who closet themselves in high-end studios for two years at a time, ceaselessly fine-tuning...