Obviously, they never took him up on the idea and online alternatives have filled the void.
But we took them up on their free month offer and watched a couple of episodes.
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If a lot of readers took Amazon up on their offer, could she find herself in dire financial straits?
In November Kmart took them up on the promise, and suddenly it is all too visible as a losing proposition.
Charlize Theron (who has since starred in Mighty Joe Young and The Astronaut's Wife) was among the unknowns who took Mashouf up on his offer.
But here's what I'm sure of: Not everybody took Cravath up on this peachy keen opportunity to do anything for a year with pay and benefits.
The retired factory guard took him up on the advice, buying 900 pounds of the stuff to feed his extended family for the next 12 months.
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Inventor Waldo Waterman took him up on the offer in 1936 and built a small plane with removable wings, a clutch and a transmission, called the Waterman Arrowbile.
At least one state recently took him up on the offer: Nevada, which began posting policy forms in October for its 10 largest home and auto insurers.
Former leftist guerrilla Jose Mujica took up office on 1 March 2010, after having won a run-off election against conservative former President Luis Lacalle in November 2009 with about 53% of the vote.
None of them would comment on whether they took the IRS up on a special offer it made last fall: Settle by Dec. 3 and you can keep 20% of your questionable losses.
The officer took up a position on the side and fired at Tamerlan and Dzhokhar.
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Mr Rhodes took up the role on a temporary basis when the previous chief constable Richard Crompton retired at the end of March, last year.
He played the gig in Italy as if nothing had happened, came back, steeled his resolve and took up his fight on his own terms.
Not to be outdone, the senior congressional champion of the Democrats' left-wing, Senator Ted Kennedy , took up the baton on Friday with a speech at Johns Hopkins University.
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He was subsequently made shadow leader of the Commons by Mr Cameron and took up the role on the government side when the coalition came to power after the May 2010 general election.
After a dominant year in GP2, the feeder series for F1, in 2006, which showcased the full range of Hamilton's driving skills, McLaren took up their option on him for 2007.
Glass jars filled with lime-green and crimson jelly bears were perched on the buffet tables and talent contests for start-up entrepreneurs took place on the stage.
Wasps took on Leicester up front, with young prop Tom French impressing against England tight-head White despite spending much of the season on-loan at Henley.
Mr Baroin took up the interior ministry on Monday after his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy, who is the centre-right's presidential candidate, stepped down to concentrate on his campaign.
As he took up his new post on Tuesday he said he wanted to hand back more responsibility to Bosnian politicians and reduce the wide-ranging powers that his post commands.
Following the Zytiga presentation and discussion, the board took up the next item on its agenda: Should the company move ahead with adding its internally developed Global Aquatic Ingredient Assessment, GAIA for short, to the Earthwards framework?
Being on computers took up 20 minutes, the same amount of time as reading.
Hundreds of families, rail enthusiasts and interested onlookers took up positions at stations and on bridges to catch a glimpse of the train, as it travelled non-stop.
Depressed Clinton took the break up badly and on 14 November last year he "torched" Mrs Clinton's "pride and joy" - a purple Land Rover she called Fred, the court heard.
But with the balds weakened, the goldens took up residence and began dining on terrestrial prey as is their wont: feral piglets released by historic human ranching operations on the islands and the tiny island foxes, who only have one to four pups a year.
Nowadays he's one of the wealthiest men in the country (No. 24 on our recent Thai 40 Richest list) and, since he took up polo eight years ago, has been found on the field playing with the likes of Prince Charles and top-ranked Adolfo Cambiaso.
"I think Allan Donald did it through the latter part of his career - came on first change, really tied it up, put the pressure on and took wickets, " said McGrath.
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