Word: make
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...1940s Texas, young John Grady Cole (Damon) loses the ranch he loves in a battle, rounds up a buddy (Thomas) and heads for Mexico, looking for work, looking for adventure; looking for the sort of experience that will make men in full of them...
...Case and Levin wouldn't budge when the FTC demanded the right to regulate the placement of AOL Time Warner content, fearing they would lose control of their own products. It was a make-or-break issue. In their 11th-hour concession, signed off on at 5:30 last Wednesday afternoon, they agreed to report any complaints from competitors who believe they've been denied AOL Time Warner content...
...publishing division, there is concern that fledgling projects, including magazine start-ups, might be cut because the new regime is so short-term oriented. "The minute there is a case where we're being asked to cut into our core business because some other division didn't make its numbers, there's going to be trouble," says an executive. "If top people like Logan, [Jeff] Bewkes, [CEO of HBO] or Terry McGuirk [CEO of TBS] throw their hands up and leave, the AOL people won't have a clue how to fill those jobs...
Sales are running below expectations, and jittery merchants--most of whom make a quarter of their annual sales during this critical time--are slashing prices earlier than ever before. Apart from the Barbie Volkswagen and the Sony PlayStation 2 game machine, there aren't many must-have items. And when consumers do spend, it is increasingly for services--such as trips, parties or a day at the spa--not for old-fashioned goods. "Shopping as bingeing is over now," says Kurt Barnard of Barnard's Retail Trend Report. "Consumers won't buy frivolously or on a whim. They...
...crash, has no one to talk to, to bray at, as he did to his harried underlings at work--no one to shore up his resolve or share his desperation. Well, all right. Chuck is a doer. So he will fashion tools, clothing, shelter; find food, draw cave paintings, make fire. He will replicate the ascent of man, all by his lonesome. He'll be Robinson Crusoe without Friday, Gilligan without the crew, Survivor without all those annoying other survivors...