Those getting the boot often times move to the independent or regional channels.

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But rather than getting the boot, Zucker was elevated: He was promoted to chief executive of NBC in 2005, and then to his current position in 2007.

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For participants of the Entrepreneurs Challenge, getting up on a Sunday morning and attending the day-long Boot Camp was the beginning of that long journey.

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According to The Times, Indiana appears to be the state having the most trouble today, with 75 precincts using incorrectly programmed smart cards and nearly half of Marion County's 914 precincts having trouble getting their machines to boot up in the first place.

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He also recalled getting the keys to his father's BMW to scare him into thinking he was going to stick him in the boot.

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As if seeing the Commodore logo slapped on a whole slew of thoroughly unremarkable devices wasn't enough to make folks of a certain age feel a little wistful for their early computing days, legendary game developer Microprose is now getting in on the action as well, and seemingly outdoing Commodore to boot.

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Infinity Ward head Mark Rubin calls Ghosts "a new sub-brand" in the CoD franchise, and it's getting a new (unnamed) game engine to boot -- another indicator that previous characters aren't involved.

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New students getting masters of management degrees at Nyenrode Business School, in the Netherlands, find themselves in a "boot camp" run by ex-marines, where they are taught to be not just good leaders but good followers, too.

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Without the novelty of a CEO getting drowned out by his own product (with an in-joke to boot), this ad simply showed someone blowing off her real-world relatives for her more exciting friends doing more exciting things.

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