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...films show virtually no interest, leaving that task to workplace sitcoms and cop and lawyer shows. The idea has always been that people won't pay to see at the 'plex what they just left in the office. To be forced to review our working lives on the big screen--that's not escape, that's overtime...
...interest in the team's new arena for an NBA record price of $280 million two years ago, he was ridiculed for paying too much and trying to "buy" a championship with player perks. At the American Airlines Center, each player's locker is outfitted with a flat-screen TV, DVD player, VCR and stereo receiver. Cuban's embellishments to the arena, including a private underground court for pregame practices, added $2.5 million to construction costs. Aboard the team's 757, there is a weight room and a medical facility. Most teams have a head coach and two assistants...
...SURVEILLANCE In the movie, Jodie Foster monitors the bad guys on a bank of closed-circuit TVs. In real life, the video feeds would likely be channeled to one screen. In the film, the surveillance cameras are easily spotted; usually they are camouflaged...
...Hypermarkets have already changed the retail landscape in their homelands by being brutally efficient, selling a mind-boggling range of products?from groceries to pharmaceuticals to clothes to big-screen TVs?at cut-rate prices. U.S.-based Costco operates spartan warehouses where bulk goods are stacked on pallets and sold to the public wholesale. The mammoth Wal-Mart chain?annual revenues of $218 billion made it the largest company on this year's FORTUNE 500 list?emphasizes customer service to bring in the crowds while keeping prices in check with high-tech inventory management?and by using its clout...
...Court has consistently held that it is not the government’s place to outlaw the expressions of thoughts which could only tangentially lead to a potential crime. Child pornography does not necessarily lead anyone to go and molest, abduct or rape just as a feigned murder, on screen or on stage, does not necessarily lead to violent outbursts. If the government were to outlaw virtual images of child sex, why should it allow scenes that depict murder, or even shoplifting...