Word: households
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...pushed through a broad reorganization of the Department of Energy that will largely separate the nation?s nuclear labs from the rest of the department. The Republicans say the measures will streamline administration, increase accountability and prevent the kind of embarrassing security snafus that made Wen Ho Lee a household name...
Those assets include household names like CBS, Paramount, MTV, VH-1 and Nickelodeon in addition to properties such as UPN, TNN, Showtime, Simon & Schuster publishing and others, giving the company cradle-to-grave demographics. For example, CBS draws the 50-plus crowd, which will be more than offset by Nickelodeon's and MTV's decisively Gen Y and younger constituency. "My kids will respect me more because I'm involved with a channel [MTV] they actually watch," says CBS president Leslie Moonves...
Some parents also connect money to household chores or grade performance, which I think is a mistake. Your child should help at home because he is a member of the family and should work hard at school without a financial incentive...
Stars typically take the cheers or the heat for these moments; writers just take the money. It has ever been thus. Bob Hope's gagmen were awakened at 3 a.m. for emergency jokes; James Allardice wrote the droll TV monologues that made Alfred Hitchcock a household deity. But these scribes were as anonymous as the Roman speechwriter who whispered into the dying Caesar's ear, "Say, 'Et tu, Brute?'" So it's nice that Vilanch, a wide guy with a blond mop that makes him look like an obscene Senor Wences puppet...
Call it commodity chic. Marketers of watches and desk chairs, lawn sets and household tools are courting the world's top artists in a bid to make design a critical selling point. Like Graves, architect Philippe Starck is busy putting his mark of conceptual brilliance on a lineup of bathroom fixtures, from sinks to urinals, for the German company Duravit. And designer Marc Newson, 35, has done kitchen accessories for Italy's upscale Alessi, a bicycle for Denmark's Biomega, and the bar at Andre Balazs' new Standard Hotel in Los Angeles--in addition to a car for Ford...