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BUSH REJECTS A BIG UP-FRONT INCREASE IN AID FOR AFRICA. HOW CAN YOU ACCOMPLISH WHAT YOU WANT WITHOUT THE U.S. ON BOARD...
Bowing to realism, summer internships involve mostly up-front deposits in the Bank of Upward Mobility, with withdrawals to be made later: fast cars, slower women, issues of The New Yorker that recline, untouched, with a distinguished air on the coffee table until they are casually replaced the following week...
...competition from video games, and cable channels eroding ever more of the networks' share. As advertisers increasingly chase audiences through nontraditional outlets as well, the major networks may be in for a lousy year. A recent report by Goldman Sachs concluded that the networks will generate $9 billion in up-front ad revenues for the 2005-06 season, the first decline in absolute dollars in five years. And that assumes the networks can raise ad prices 5% despite losing 3% of their audience to cable this season...
...easy to pull a fast one on unassuming customers without any real accountability. In their current, indecipherable form, however, it’s safe to assume that people will continue to “agree” to these terms without thinking. It is essential that EULAs be more up-front and comprehensible; they should be written in “plain English” to avoid any underhanded policies that might require signing away one’s soul—inadvertently...
...hole," Clooney says of the partnership, in which they have agreed to finance any project the other feels strongly about. Nevertheless, it's a relationship that he believes more star-director combos should attempt. "I think it's really irresponsible to make really crappy movies for the up-front money," he says. "If you need a job or are just coming up, by all means take the job. I was in Return of the Killer Tomatoes. But if you have the ability to green-light a script, I think it's wrong...