So instead they treat scorecards like scoreboards, with black and white numbers that they think tell the whole story.
Will carriers and manufacturers end up abandoning the whole concept when they realize there's a long trail of more red ink ahead (in the form of rollouts, marketing, hardware development, and the like) before they hit the black?
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"We went to see Be Kind Rewind - with Jack Black - and in the film they make all these re-makes of films like Ghostbusters because Black wipes all the videos in this shop where he's working, so he has to go out and retrieve them, " Young explains.
The brief periods of moralizing "story" that you get simply draw more attention to the pathetic kicking, shooting and punching, like the little black squares they superimpose over nipples when they need to show a naked lady on network TV.
Although poor Hispanic families are coming to resemble poor black families, they do not feel like them.
They regularly meet with stars like Cameron Diaz, Jack Black and Charlize Theron.
They feel more like the Cold War, a place of black-and-white and not much gray.
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Gates still adopts personas, but they're more often modeled after historic black characters like South Carolina slave potter Dave Drake, who famously wrote poems on the shoulders of his pots at a time when black people were forbidden to read.
Jet black and glistening, they bask on the rocks like mermaids, or slip easily into the freezing Atlantic to feast on sardines.
The PSP and the PS Vita also never officially made it to China presumably due to the strict content restrictions, but like many other flagship gadgets, they were quite popular on the black market.
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We actually sort of agree with this one people should be allowed to do what they want with the DVDs they buy (just like it's perfectly legal for someone to black out all the naughty parts of books) but hopefully just to piss off Congress someone'll figure out a way to add a little extra sex, violence, and profanity to movies.
Supermodel Naomi Campbell taking fashion magazines like Vogue to task, saying they're making it harder for black models to make the cover.
"They were the first band to sing about black Haitians in everyday life, like women selling mangos on the side of the road, " Mr. Dow said.
At the 1.2-mile point, Fridjon stands at the edge of a cave-like crevasse, gripping each hiker in turn as they peer into the pitch-black hole.
If they all go down at the same time, it'll make Black Monday look like Thanksgiving.
They are produced by supernovae, neutron stars, galactic centres, black holes and the like.
Inexplicably, they try to convey that impoverishment with outmoded black American diction and a Thelma Ritter-like solidity.
It seems like they all have the same theme -- the urgency for job creation in the black community.
While oil majors like BP are eagerly exploring Turkey's share of the Black Sea, they long ago gave up seeking big finds onshore.
They were of dog owners, mostly the working-class poor in heavily black neighborhoods like the now famous Ninth Ward, who refused to evacuate without their four-legged loved ones - cats too.
Mr. ALEXANDER: I'd like this book to really give black women something to celebrate themselves in which they should walk away with lot of pride about the diversity of their beauty and the diversity of their hair as something that--I think when a black woman comes into the world, hair is something that is discussed in her life very early on.
Customers like it because they can understand how it works, unlike a solution built on a proprietary black box.
In certain lights, with enough Brylcreem on his hair and enough tight black leather on his limbs, he was as handsome as they were too, like a young Tom Courtenay.
They cherry picked key phrases from the e-mails and published them out of context, like a black-and-white political attack ad with ominous music.
Findings like the above should be part of the conversation among black and Hispanic community leaders as they respond to the fact that even the children of college-educated parents often achieve at lower-than-expected levels.
They are organising public ceremonies in which those suspected of malpractice by their neighbours are wrapped in white sheets, like corpses, and then asked to swear before the community that they have not been involved in black magic.
Slender, sheathed in black leather, with short ebony hair sticking up in a tuft, her fingers sticking out of black woollen gloves as they skitter across a keyboard, Mara cuts through scene after scene like a swift, dark blade.
They then recommend ways to use the information, like making all the shoes displayed on the Monday home page black (and coaxing the company to make sure that suppliers are clued in).
So we join the rich in beautiful dining rooms, like The Peninsula's Mei Jiang (peninsula.com) where we eat exquisite dim sum - rolled noodles with black beans and chilli, snow pea pastries, roast pork puffs so buttery they're like pig shortcakes - and are treated like pashas.
Four young black South Africans strut down a street in a slum decked out in leather like the urban toughs they are.
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