Word: proving
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...million cable subscribers at the relatively low cost of about $4,550 per subscriber. That was in addition to the $1.5 billion breakup fee Comcast collected to walk away from the deal. (Comcast's strengthened position may come in handy later as Exhibit A when AT&T has to prove to regulators that it has not rebuilt the old Ma Bell monopoly.) AT&T sold to Microsoft--a company whose Internet strategy is looking increasingly piecemeal--$5 billion of preferred stock and an opportunity to supply some of the operating systems and software for the set-top boxes and servers...
Eisner testified that he considered Katzenberg "greedy" and the 2% contractual bonus "overgenerous." Yet the $7.5 million final package he gave Katzenberg included a $400,000 discretionary bonus to prove hard feelings were forgotten. Said Eisner, shrugging: "It's like the dentist. You forget the pain...
...coordinator and a treasurer. They had a permit from the city, a hotel room across the street for showers, a pay phone hooked up to take phone calls from radio stations, and a tech-support van broadcasting a live webcam pointed at the theater. This, I assume, was to prove the old saw that the only thing more boring than sleeping out for Star Wars tickets is watching people sleeping out for Star Wars tickets...
...relationships, and traditionally it's the woman's career that takes the back seat." Gray's didn't, but she did spend her first four months at school on her own, until her husband was able to join her in California in December. Until the research is in to prove that inconveniences like that are what's deterring women from B school, admissions counselors aren't budging. They say the skills and real-life business experience older students bring to the classroom are invaluable...
...eight-part test that requires students to design a website, build and analyze spreadsheets, research problems on the Internet and demonstrate understanding of legal and ethical issues. Says Linda Dalch, president of VFIC: "If an art-history major wants a job at a bank, he needs to prove he has the skills. That's where this credential can help." This year 245 students at VFIC's member colleges have gone through the program. The long-term hope is that Tek.Xam will win the same kind of acceptance as the LSAT or CPA for law or accounting students. "To know...