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...particular, the compromise may have an important impact on PBHA's ability to launch a major fundraising drive for its 100th anniversary in the year...
...satellites may help, but unfortunately SOHO and the Polar are research satellites, meaning that they do not transmit data continuously. But next year NASA will launch the Advanced Composition Explorer, or ACE satellite, and place it in permanent orbit between the earth and the sun. Moment by moment, ACE will sample the solar wind and, almost as quickly, relay its findings back. If a blob of plasma heads this way, then ACE will see it--and alert forecasters like Hildner that a big one is about...
...that help the President appear relevant. Morris' gift is to be a psychological trip wire for Clinton, pushing ideological gambits so far across the spectrum that Clinton can just say no. When the consultant wanted Clinton to roll back racial preferences, impose constitutionally dubious restrictions on civilian militias and launch federal roundups of illegal aliens, Clinton vetoed the ideas each time. In that sense, the lesson of the Morris years may be that it takes an adviser with no core ideology to make Bill Clinton search...
...which have sunk $1.1 billion into their joint global dbs venture, American Sky Broadcasting. This pair love a good marketing punch-up. The company started swinging last month, touting ASkyB's service as "entertainment like nothing on earth." Earth to Rupert: the system is at least two years from launch...
...business." They didn't, and they won't. Real stars bring in enough extra in theaters, on video, from television and cable, from abroad and even from commercial tie-ups in theaters, to make them worthwhile. In earlier years, Hollywood didn't spend $5 million to $25 million to launch each major studio film. When I was a studio publicist, we used publicity and promotion, at one-twentieth the cost of ads. Each of the eight major Hollywood studios could save $30 million annually by alerting audiences through publicity, wholesale purchases of radio time and on the Internet. The trick...