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...high as $1.3 million a year, to broadcast NPR programs. But in contrast to common practice in commercial radio and TV, public-radio stations don't have to affiliate exclusively with one network. Most also pay carriage fees to PRI for such popular offerings as This American Life, a slice-of-life feature show, and Studio 360, starring culture critic Kurt Andersen. PRI also distributes most of the shows produced by Minnesota Public Radio, including Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion...
...announcement on HUDS’ table tent (“Weekly Slice for March 10, 2003”) offered an explanation: “RED CARPET BRUNCH,” the tent proclaimed in HUDS’ signature hyperbolic prose. “Sunday, March 16. Come work the red carpet and cast your ballot for this year’s Oscars. Take a walk among the stars and enjoy a feast fit for a diva who has just captured the coveted golden statue. Catch up on some films past and present, and be sure to enter your guesses...
...usually the only guests in this museum of Dutch-colonial furniture and cavernous suites that cost less than $30 a night. Zecha is negotiating with the government to take over other colonial properties and is creating a new beach resort on Tangalla. If you're searching for your own slice of paradise in Sri Lanka, now's the time to get out your wallet...
...waitress money. Her monologue went from defiance ("You'll see my album. Lady Tiger don't stop") to despair ("You ain't going nowhere in Detroit. Nowhere") to dignified resolve for her son's sake ("We're never going to quit, are we, angel?"). It was a haunting slice of life, more authentic than any ER subplot...
That said, top executives usually arrange to be paid in the most rewarding fashion, and stock options are a declining slice of their pay pie. On the rise are annual cash bonuses, restricted stock (shares that vest over time) and long-term cash and stock incentives (based on performance over three to five years). Such goodies will trickle down to a broader set of employees eventually, as stock options did in the '90s. But from vice president on up, you may get them now if you ask. When options are counted against earnings, their cost to the company typically runs...