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...know what the right business models are," admits Fox Digital Media president Peter Levinsohn. "There's a $1.99 sell-through model, subscription models we would like to explore and rental models that probably make sense. On some levels, an ad-supported model can be most effective. Hopefully, a single model will settle in over the next months." But for Beth Comstock, president of digital media and market development at NBC Universal, flexibility is essential. "The imperative is speed," she says. "You have to be nimble. Every network has to be ready to move where the technology goes...
...material. There is a point of diminishing returns in development, he was suggesting (in terms that more and more people now heed), and he would gladly give up hard currency if he could thus preserve cultural integrity and continuity. The absence of television meant that there were more video-rental shops along Thimphu's single main street than I see in my hometown in California. And yet there was a sense of stillness, even unfallenness in the country that made me believe the teenagers who offered, unsolicited, "Why need discos? We have monk dances here...
...notes," Waly says. "'Here's €20 for my mother, €30 to my sister, and so on.'" Of the €1,000 he earns each month cleaning office buildings in Paris, he sends about €500 home, and then pays €240 for his share of the monthly rental. That experience is repeated across the world. The life of squirreling away money is grueling: it involves years-long separation from families, miserable living conditions, and the threat of deportation for the many who are working illegally. All the same, remittances play a vital role in recycling money from...
...Dallas to make his first deals. "I had about $500 to my name," he says. "I slept in whorehouses." He had no capital to invest in drilling, so he put the farmers and the oil companies together, typing the contracts on a portable typewriter on the hood of his rental car. His strength was making a deal look good, or as friend and fellow oilman Denny Bartell says, he had an ability to "powder the pig." Van Dyke would often keep a small percentage interest, but he was usually out of the operation before drilling began. "The first year...
...college football experience while you’re at HLS.” For those who still haven’t found transportation, options include renting a car or taking the train or a Greyhound bus to New Haven. As of yesterday, a two-day rental of an SUV from Enterprise Rent-a-Car for a round trip to New Haven cost approximately $285, including gas. On Amtrak’s website yesterday, prices for a round-trip ticket from South Station to New Haven averaged $90-$116. That’s more expensive than the bus?...