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...Cronenberg hired Chambers on the advice of his producer, Ivan Reitman, who rightly figured her name would help sell the picture in foreign markets. If she wasn't quite as convincing as Cronenberg's first choice, Sissy Spacek (who at the time was making her breakout film, Carrie), she was a compelling, scary and often sympathetic presence. In the 1992 book Cronenberg on Cronenberg, the director described Chambers as "very shrewd and sharp," and said she "invented her own version of Method acting. When she had to cry, it wasn't a problem, because Chuck would say, 'Remember when Fluffy...
...Although CDSs work like insurance for investments, buying and selling them is similar to trading stocks. This generates a hazardous web of firms that hedged bets by both buying and selling CDSs. If one firm defaults, it cannot pay out the next firm’s insurance that can cause another firm to default, and so on. To further complicate matters, since CDSs are unregulated, there is no authority to which these transactions are reported. Thus, no single firm knows how many CDS deals have been made, and firms do not know to whom most CDSs have been sold. Additionally...
...pockets. "We need to understand that it is a more valuable commodity than oil and prices must reflect that better," Klop says. "Cheap subsidized water is not helping people. It is giving them a bad service." However, radically hiking the prices of any basic commodity would be a tough sell for any politician, especially in a turbulent democracy such as Mexico...
...feed and fodder," says Singhal. "No one will be able to afford it. What we have done instead is develop cheaper technologies and products." One example is urea-molasses-mineral blocks that are cheap, reduce methane emission by 20%, and also provide more nutrition, so they're easier to sell to illiterate farmers who don't know a thing about global warming but want higher milk yields...
...dogs • increasing numbers of people formerly otherwise employed are now buying pushcarts from which to sell...