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...fact is, for UPN, "Buffy" is a bargain at any price, even if the network is never able to recoup the hefty price tag off the show itself. It guarantees a big influx of a key demographic: namely, people who otherwise would never watch UPN. (All the more so if, as seems likely, UPN ultimately gets the popular spinoff "Angel" as well...
...bankruptcy laws should be tightened. Some people employ bankruptcy as a tool while cunningly hiding their assets. The party declaring bankruptcy may later become wealthy, but the lender, who in some cases may be relatively poor, can never recoup the loss. KNUD B. PEDERSEN Margate...
...White House), was the center of a bidding war last week over her memoirs, as publishers courted her with huge sums. In the end, she said yes to Simon & Schuster, reportedly for an $8 million advance. The publishing house will have to sell 1.5 million hard-cover copies to recoup that kind of money. Clinton has promised that she will spill the beans, in a "dignified" way, about the Clintons' eight years in office--including MONICA LEWINSKY. Indeed, talking about the former intern was key to the frenzy. A publishing executive who dropped out of the bidding says...
...modified crops. Their products are often too costly for poor farmers in the developing world, and many of those products won't even reach the regions where they are most needed. Biotech firms have a strong financial incentive to target rich markets first in order to help them rapidly recoup the high costs of product development. But some of these companies are responding to the needs of poor countries. A London-based company, for example, has announced that it will share with developing countries technology needed to produce vitamin-enriched "golden rice...
...computer violence! All computer users should be registered with the Federal Government, and there should be a mandatory one-week waiting period for computer sales nationwide. If Congress does not have the will to act on this, the Federal and state governments should file lawsuits against computer manufacturers to recoup the damages caused by these viruses. We must stop the threat posed by easy access to computers. ANDREW L. LEVY Los Angeles...