Warner Bros. Television could have owned "Desperate Housewives," but refused to pay a minuscule thirty-thousand-dollar-per-episode "package fee" to the writer's agents.
(After "Idol" became a colossal hit, the price of retaining Cowell, its unexpected star, rose to a sum that Carter puts at thirty-six million dollars a year). Warner Bros. Television could have owned "Desperate Housewives," but refused to pay a minuscule thirty-thousand-dollar-per-episode "package fee" to the writer's agents.
At a wholesale price of $9 a package, that would work out to about $6 million annually in wholesale revenue — a minuscule amount compared with the nearly $3.5 billion that Americans spent on prescription birth control pills last year, according to IMS Health, a medical information company.
Grape Nuts has 100% of the Grape Nuts market, a smaller percentage of the breakfast cereal market, an even smaller percentage of the packaged-foods market, a still smaller percentage of the packaged-goods shelf-space market, a tiny percentage of the U.S. food market, a minuscule percentage of the world food market, and a microscopic percentage of total consumer expenditures.
That is a minuscule number.
Natural proteins represent a minuscule fraction of possible sequence space.
A minuscule burden, Mr. Shure calls it.
But, it attracted a minuscule audience.
The budget was a minuscule $40,000.
Could these experiments be carried out in a minuscule scale.
"Maybe a little clay, but it's a minuscule amount".
