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  • But in a shift from the high-budget, troop-intensive counter-insurgency approach which aimed to win over the population with lavish development projects, the U.S. strategy here, as in much of the rest of Afghanistan, is increasingly turning toward trying to shut down insurgent networks by capturing and killing their members.

    At U.S. Base, Afghan Endgame Begins Maria Abi-Habib 2011

  • It may get you the geek love but no one will call your show art and the big meanie procedurals and high-budget crime dramas will kick sand in your show's face and laugh at you.

    The Lost World yuki_onna 2010

  • As broadcast networks struggle with rising costs for sports programming and high-budget TV shows, the networks increasingly are under pressure to tap into the more than $70 billion a year that consumers spend on cable networks through monthly bills.

    Fox, Cablevision Fight On Nat Worden 2010

  • He wants a high-budget picture, which seems like a real risk.

    Robocop Screenwriter Says Darren Aronofsky is Still Attached | /Film 2010

  • The film industry was definitely alive and thriving before the introduction of the first at-home recordings (VCRs and video cassette tapes in the 1960s), and there were even high-budget films made like War and Peace.

    Matthew Yglesias » Intellectual Property is About Consumers 2010

  • Ben Smith of Politiconotes that the spot is "an homage to an unusual, legendary, high-budget 1986 advertisement made by the director Ridley Scott," that depicted the America of 2017 as a destitute and frail nation, a future caused by the nation's budget deficits at the time.

    CAGW Campaign Ad Imagines China-Dominated Future (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • In recent years, cable networks have gotten more aggressive in courting advertisers with high-profile shows, including Conan O'Brien 's evening talk show on TBS and TNT's flashy high-budget sci-fi thriller, "Falling Skies," whose executive producer is Steven Spielberg.

    Cable Ad Dollars Catch Up Lauren A. E. Schuker 2011

  • Tim Pawlenty's strategy of producing high-budget campaign videos didn't work out, so Michele Bachmann is opting to film her clips in what appears to be a nail salon's waiting room.

    HUFFPOST HILL - Rick Perry Is The North Star Of Texas Lobbyists Eliot Nelson 2011

  • In recent years, cable networks have gotten more aggressive in courting advertisers with high-profile shows, including Conan O'Brien 's evening talk show on TBS and TNT's flashy high-budget sci-fi thriller, "Falling Skies," whose executive producer is Steven Spielberg.

    Cable Ad Dollars Catch Up Lauren A. E. Schuker 2011

  • People knock David Lynch's film, but the production design was as creative as American sci-fi films get, and was at least good enough to be shamelessly ripped off by the high-budget, low-brained Chronicles of Riddick.

    EXCLUSIVE: ‘Dune’ Director Explains Plans For ‘Faster’ Movie, Better Representations Of Clothes And Tech » MTV Movies Blog 2010

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