Word: numbering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...proposes the same number of tiers; it just renames them," he said. "Instead of a grade of A, it would be super high honors; A- would be high honors...
...Gore's prescription drug plan, will suddenly bestir themselves, flip on CNN, and catch up on all the politics they have missed during our comfortable, decade-long Gilded Age. More likely, a sudden and artificially induced increase in voter turnout would only mean an increase in the number of ill-informed, poorly thought out and just plain stupid votes. To be blunt, most of the people who don't vote, shouldn't vote...
...issue is the system that determines how much actors are paid for a commercial. Under the current "pay for play" formula, advertisers pay residuals in proportion to the number of times a spot airs on the networks - but not on cable, for which the actor receives a flat rate. That system is outmoded, both sides agree, at a time when more and more advertising dollars are spent on cable. Says Ira Shepard, a lawyer negotiating for the advertisers, "There is no industry in this country, if not the world, that can, in the year 2000, survive on concepts and rules...
...union also has proposed monitoring commercial payments; currently there is no check on the number of times a spot runs, and thus on the amount an actor is owed. Last year SAG conducted a study that randomly selected 32 commercials, most of them in the cable market. The survey found a discrepancy of thousands of dollars in unpaid fees and in some cases, residuals. Cable is no longer "an infant industry," says SAG president William Daniels. "Now you have 155 cable outlets to monitor. We need some kind of coverage...
...chamber (as well as various other guest rooms at the presidential residence and Camp David) since July 1999. This delicious bit of Clinton-baiting fodder, released two weeks after the New York Times requested the list, could be problematic for the administration on one front in particular: Quite a number of the guests are generous contributors to Al Gore's and Hillary Clinton's campaign coffers. In a headache-inducing development for Mrs. Clinton, a few of her most beneficent donors occupy conspicuous spots on the list...