Word: planning
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...reason: any pricing scheme that can raise actual money risks chasing away actual readers. If you lose readership, you lose influence; you become less essential; you have to downscale your operation; and you lose more readership and thus even more money. The Times's plan seems to be to gingerly charge its most avid readers, then gradually see how much more coin it can grab without triggering that downsizing spiral. (See the best business deals...
...real significance of the plan is symbolic. To a journalist, the Times's admitting vulnerability is a crack in the firmament. It's like that moment when you see your father catching his breath on the stairs and it dawns on you that someday he will die. (And, by extension, so will you.) So other outlets are hoping the Times will show them a way to rage against the dying of the light, if not with the pay wall then with its plan (similar to the efforts of companies like Time Inc.) to develop content for the Apple iPad...
...conservative filmmaker, posed as a pimp for an undercover exposé of negligent practices by the community action group ACORN. Now he appears to be on the wrong side of a different scandal. On Jan. 25, O'Keefe and three associates were arrested by the FBI for coordinating a plan in which two of the men, Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan, entered the New Orleans office of Democratic U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu and posed as telephone repairmen in a ploy to install wiretaps. The accused are charged with entering federal property under false pretenses with the intent to commit a felony...
...Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) released an open letter to its members and the Harvard community on the afternoon of Friday, Feb. 5, criticizing the University and the Deans for not being specific in their communications about the current budget crisis and for not seeming to have a universal plan to deal with fiscal concerns...
...just have to stick to our game plan, to just trust each other, trust the system to execute,” Rogers said. “I think we get into trouble when we play a lot of one-on-one. If we play as a team, move the puck, and come out with 100 percent effort, we have the ability to win a lot of games. That’s easier said than done but if we can do that we’ll do very well here down the stretch...