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...burrowing into the production process. "Each company is pursuing a different strategy involving a complex mix of production and distribution elements," says Stephan Seip, media analyst at Merrill Lynch. Some of those strategies have a fantasy feel--for $65 million, you too can be a movie mogul and rub shoulders with the stars. But others are based on long-term plans and objectives backed by years of experience at home. How well are the newcomers likely to do? The inevitable shakeout has begun with EM.TV, and more casualties are bound to follow--events the suits in Hollywood will be watching...
...stick margarine, contains trans-fatty acids, which may be even worse for arteries. So what about the stuff in a tub? A new study shows that cholesterol levels can drop 10% in kids and adults within two weeks of switching from butter to soft tub margarine. There's a rub. Switching has no effect on the cholesterol of overweight subjects, who tend to have higher levels to begin with...
...brilliant, perhaps it should happen every election. We make it as far as the conventions, and then the two winners can spend the next few months getting to know each other, having a couple of beers, becoming buddies, learning to agree on everything. But there's the rub...
...after which both the Giants and Dodgers left New York. The Mets were spawned in 1962, and since then New York City has been the site of a constant ongoing rivalry. This series is the culmination of 39 years of trash-talking and angry debate as fans rub elbows in the subways, in sports bars--the city makes escape impossible. Thirty-nine years of pride is now on the line: This is what the city has been waiting for. Make no mistake, the games played this week will be talked about in the Big Apple for decades to come...
...there's a rub. Americans are more tied to the stock market than ever, and most of their holdings are of large U.S.-based companies. As the euro slides, so does the profit picture at those kinds of companies. Why? They do business across the globe. When the foreign currencies they are paid in lose value against the dollar, that translates into lower profits at home...