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...problem is compounded by limited accountability; in past years, the council hasn’t had an effective mechanism to ensure that its funds are used for their intended purposes. These conditions are ripe for potentially fraudulent applications or funding for non-existent events, and this appearance of loose financial controls should be ended immediately. Proposals that have surfaced to ask groups for their receipts, or to convene an audit committee are promising, but this reform calls for more swift and decisive action from council leaders...
Fuller has become rich by putting fame-hungry performers in front of audiences eager to see them squirm. His web of privately held entertainment companies, known as the 19 Group, is estimated by industry analysts to be worth more than $300 million. But with reality TV looking ripe to go the way of prime-time soap operas and other fads, the genre must evolve to survive. And Fuller knows it. "In England the bubble's already about to burst," he says, even as he oversees Pop Idol's second British series, a global rollout in China, Norway and other countries...
...this might be a ruse. One young firebrand told me, "Now we are entering the world of games." In the past, Indonesian government officials have been shameless about making cheery promises to gloss over problems and quell criticism, only to break them when the opportunity to make money was ripe...
...with synthetic turf, including the training pitch at Clairefontaine, France's famed football academy, and Luzhniki Olympic Stadium in Moscow, home to the Spartak and Torpedo Moscow clubs. Should FIFA approve the surface for all competitions, annual industry sales, now about j300 million, could explode. The European market seems ripe as cash-strapped clubs look for cost-effective ways to keep their pitches playable through the European winter. In the '80s, some clubs tried plastic pitches, but abandoned the idea because of the rock-hard surface and the sky-high bounce of the ball. However, things could turn again. Early...
...situation ripe for manipulation. In the last two years of the Clinton Administration, despite a recommendation by BAR staff to deny recognition to six tribal groups, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Kevin Gover, a former Clinton fund raiser appointed to the post by the President, recognized four of the tribes before he left office on Jan. 3, 2001. His successor, Michael Anderson, another Clinton appointee, then pressured the BAR staff to change its recommendation on the two other tribes. In an atmosphere so tense that a staff member later described it to the Interior Department's Inspector General as "pure...