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...Opinion polls taken ahead of Thursday's strikes vary considerably, though together they roughly average a near 50% split between approval and condemnation. However, director of the French Revue of Political Science, Jean-Luc Parodi, notes public support of the strikers is already far below the 70% level expressed in 1995, and at least 10 points lower than those registered in 2003 - and they could fall further. The difference, he says, is context...
...roles range from composing and aggregating songs to delivering them, around 40%; and music publishers - which are sometimes owned by labels and sometimes aren't - up to 20%, which they share with the actual songwriters. "The 40% that's getting squeezed are the guys in the middle," says Patrick Parodi, chairman of the London-based Mobile Entertainment Forum, an industry association whose members include companies from all sectors of the ring-tone business. Not surprisingly, the middlemen firms don't want to give up their cut to the labels, and fear a fight over percentages could push up prices. Andrea...
...trained engineer who served as president ofthe Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral inthe early 1970s. Parodi said that Ecuador mustnegotiate alternative repayment methods to avoidthrowing its budget into disarray and slashingsocial spending...
...Parodi suggested that bankers allow his countryto pay back its debt at "secondary market rates,"which range as low as 15 percent of the value oforiginal loans. The drastically lower ratesreflect Ecuador's actual ability to pay, as wellas market rates for problem loans that lenderstransfer among themselves, Parodi said...
...forum, Parodi said he hasdoubts about the interests of banks in general."My suspicion is that the bankers don't want us torepay the debt. They want us to service it--thatis their business," he said