Word: thresholds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least that much again from theaters overseas, and a similar amount from video around the world -- and from all of that around $100 million flowed back to the studio, a sum that might just cover Columbia's costs on Last Action Hero. Unfortunately for Columbia, reaching even that minimum threshold looks dicey...
More than anything else, the showmen are worried that the pumped-up glamour and hype on which their businesses depend will leach away if audiences can pick and choose and consume in electronic solitude. "We are standing on a revolutionary threshold," says MCA's Teller of on-line delivery. "But I don't believe the highest form of human existence is sitting at home in a cocoon downloading digital bits...
Clinton should also publicly advocate free air time for third-party candidates. Even if a minimum threshold level of support is required to qualify (and there should be one), Perotians would be grateful...
...more physically aggressive. The tendency to be a thrill seeker may be one such characteristic. So might "a restless impulsiveness, an inability to defer gratification," says psychologist Richard Herrnstein of Harvard, whose theories about the hereditary nature of intelligence stirred up a political storm in the 1970s. A high threshold for anxiety or fear may be another key trait. According to psychologist Jerome Kagan, also of Harvard, such people tend to have a "special biology," with lower-than-average heart rates and blood pressure...
...making AAA more representative while at the same time criticizing the "infeasibility" of our proposal due to the large size of AAA's membership. We wonder, however, how these officers can demand that we lower the "majority" required to pass a political motion any further (below the four-ninths threshold stipulated in our voting system) and still agree "in principle" to the concept of democratic representation...