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...their hairnets and offering viewers vending machines and takeout. In October, the Walt Disney Co., the parent company of the ABC network, cut a deal with iTunes to sell episodes of shows such as Lost and Desperate Housewives for $1.99 apiece. A few weeks later CBS and NBC Universal struck deals to sell shows, hours after their airing, via video on demand (VOD) for 99¢ a pop from cable company Comcast and satellite company DirecTV, respectively. (The CBS service debuts in January; NBC's, early next year...
...Women make more money these days, they're calling the shots, they're more powerful. And let's face it, it's hard to meet someone." HEIDI FLEISS, former "Hollywood Madam" on why she struck a deal to open a Nevada brothel that will cater exclusively to female clients
...Trade Organization (WTO) meetings in Seattle and Canc?n?most of the action takes place in a mad flurry during the last few hours, when previously unshakable national positions suddenly melt away in compromise. Then comes the spin. "Trade negotiators are famous for saying that the agreement they've just struck is not a good one," says an official at the WTO secretariat in Geneva, who jokingly describes the group as the "half-a-loaf outfit?not what we wanted but still better than nothing...
...stuck as usual, and without a breakthrough there, little else can happen. Following recent inconclusive talks in London, expectations for Hong Kong are being drastically scaled back. "Unless a miracle happens, I don't see anything emerging in Hong Kong. Nobody I know believes a deal can be struck," frets Jagdish Bhagwati, a specialist in the economics of trade at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Pascal Lamy, the director-general of the WTO, acknowledged as much this month when he said that too little progress has been made even to have a full draft text...
...liberalization could mean a lurch toward protectionism. The mood in many parts of the world is turning hostile to free trade in the face of low-cost competition from China in manufactured goods and India in IT services. As evidence, consider how the recent accords that Washington and Brussels struck with Beijing imposed new limits on the growth of textile imports from China?trade barriers that had been eliminated earlier in the year. That sort of backsliding, coupled with efforts by many countries to negotiate bilateral or regional trade accords outside the WTO framework, sends shivers through multinational corporations...