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...large middle ground--particularly the PG rating, which might well include everything from Boy Meets World to a racy episode of Seinfeld. In truth, the system seems motivated less by an urge for simplicity and more by a desire to avoid the red-flag V rating, which would probably scare off many advertisers--and, once the V chip comes into operation, erode the ratings of violent shows. "I think the industry has gone out of its way to develop a rating system that will not tell parents whether there is violence in a program," says Kathryn Montgomery, president...
...Sakharov, who in the Yeltsin era became a KGB general. In trying to create his "dictatorship within the government," Chubais has wielded power with brutal enthusiasm. The recently created All-Russian Extraordinary Commission to collect back taxes, for example, has his fingerprints all over it. The idea is to scare money out of the companies that owe the government--and do not have enough political muscle to resist...
...that scare you, though. Much has changed, which is why the yield sank to last week's low of 1.99% without disrupting the bull market. Today companies hold back more of what they earn, opting not to increase dividends but to reinvest in operations or buy stock on the open market. This year, for example, blue-chip companies will report record high earnings but pay out a record low portion of those earnings as dividends (37%, vs. a post-World War II average of 52%).That's O.K., so long as reinvesting and buying back shares have their intended effect...
...female bank employe, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said she wasn't told of the robbery. "I didn't know about it. That pretty much gives me a scare. Today was my first day there and I didn't hear anything about...
...good to be President (see Senator Richard Lugar). You can also be too bad to be President, and as a consequence, have the first real scare in your congressional race in years (see Congressman "B-1 Bob" Dornan). And you can be too phony to be President (see Lamar! in the shirt playing the piano...