Word: upfront
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...acknowledge upfront that I don’t like buses. I find them slow, unreliable, motion-sickness-inducing, and, frankly, confusing: the last time I attempted to take one I missed my stop and ended up in a deserted Dudley Station—not a cheerful situation. In both my native New York and adopted Boston, subways are almost always the way to go. Otherwise, I walk. Fast...
...least the schadenfreude, begins later today with NBC's upfront at Radio City Music Hall. Don't touch that dial. There'll be plenty of time for that once the new shows actually premiere...
...unusual move, Reilly and Zucker -whose network presented first at the upfronts -repeatedly stressed that they could switch things around depending on what the competition announced. Here's the schedule! We love it! Except we might not love it by the end of the week! But don't worry -we've got a whole stack of schedules where this one came from! (This despite the fact that the whole purpose of the upfront is to give advertisers a concrete schedule to pay to advertise on -but hey, it's not my money, so not my problem...
...addition to its enormous upfront price tag, privatization fails on a number of other grounds. For instance, despite conservative rants about the inefficiency of government programs, only one percent of the money going into Social Security is currently spent on administration fees. This figure is in comparison to the 15 to 20 percent companies in Chile are charging their clients to maintain retirement accounts in the country’s privatized system. Moreover, despite its imperfections, the current system provides something privatization cannot: reliability. Just as stock markets rocket up, they also tumble down, often for years at a time...
Blunt observations like this are stock in trade for Menendez. Although she aspires to be a public figure, she can be disarmingly transparent. For one thing, she is very upfront about her ambitions...