In essence, Bachmann said that any spending cuts included in the current deals being debated in Congress are a mix of parlor tricks and small ball, ultimately avoiding long-term structural reform of the size and scope of the federal government.
In its new network rights deal, Major League Baseball is seeking two to three times as much as the combined $975 million that Fox and NBC are paying in their current deals, which expire after this season.
But these talks are occurring in a sagging advertising market, which may limit the increase in payments to 35 to 50percentt, well below the astonishing increases accorded the National Football League and N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament in their current deals.
In its current deal, which went into effect in 2007, Fox gave up the rights to televise up to seven division series games and one league championship series, which TBS acquired.
In the current deal, NBC has had nearly $90 million in annual losses, about the same as TNT and TBS.
Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, weighs in on whether the current deals under negotiation go far enough.
"Naturally, we have players who will be out of contract and others in negotiations over their current deals.
For now, BMW's longstanding association with golf isn't expected to run beyond current deals in any case.
In the current deal, only some prisoners were expected to be permitted into the West Bank.
In his current deal with Disney, Mr. Jobs splits profits equally, which has helped Disney compensate for otherwise uneven results from its animated movie division in recent years.
