It's probably stretching a little to call it 'auction management,' but it's a good tool.

We allege that my clients went to NASCAR with the ideas, that they spoke with upper levels of management and that we had an oral agreement with them.

Do you think there's any possibility you could get CBS management to split your salary up amongst the rest of us?

From doing Power Station, it was like, it's the same guys, but it doesn't sound like them. When we were in Duran, the labels and management wanted more Duran stuff so they could sell it.

[Jay Leno said the Federal Emergency Management Agency head recently appeared at his doorstep and said,] I'm here for the earthquake damage you had back in '94. ... The Bush administration is getting ready to ignore it.

We want to look at whether these functions such as financial management are core to the agencies' mission, or should they spend money to get data from a shared service provider. We really want people to look at this, and we will work with them as they move forward.