Word: turnings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...what point did you realize that Elmo was going to turn into such a big deal? I came back in the next season, and the first bit I did the crew actually laughed. If you can get the crew to laugh on a show, you know that you're doing something. At the end of each season, the producers would get together with the writers and they'll poll what new characters worked that season. And when the research department went out with Elmo, they saw that not only were the kids being entertained by the character, but that they...
...doing Elmo something you can just turn on and off in your head, in terms of entering the character? A couple days ago [Sesame Street Muppeteer] Caroll Spinney did a radio interview, and he brought Oscar the Grouch. The interviewers were like, "But nobody can see him." Well, we're portraying these characters. We can't just sit there as ourselves and do that voice and personality. We're puppeteers. It's kind of weird for us to sit in front of people, even if it's radio, and not have the puppet there...
...latest turn in Kraft's effort to forge the world's biggest confectionary business, the low-ball offer - worth $12 per Cadbury share, or 4% less than its earlier proposal thanks to an interim fall in Kraft's shares - was never likely to be welcomed. As a multiple of Cadbury's profit before deductions for tax and other charges, the deal is worth roughly a third less than the average for takeovers in the global food business since 2000, according to investment-research firm Sanford C. Bernstein. Granted, the world is in an economic slump and there's no rival...
...think if it does turn out to be true,” he said, “it’s a win-win for everyone...
...proportion of students who are of legal drinking age. This encourages hosts to devote money to non-alcoholic drinks and food, which is precisely what the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services and other health professionals recommend in order to ensure that casual alcohol consumption does not turn into unhealthful binge drinking...