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...weekends for film attendance, the real behemoth was the calendar. With July 4 falling on a Saturday, one of the two busiest movie days of the week, the box office got clouted by fireworks and barbecues. Each of the top 10 films, which normally would make about the same amount of money on Saturday as on Friday, was down at least 30% last night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ice Age vs. Transformers: It's a Draw! | 7/5/2009 | See Source »

...promised to keep 16% of combined U.S.-Canada output north of Detroit, but unless its new models can win market share from Ford and Toyota, it will continue its painful slide into oblivion. Also, as GM continues to shrink at home, it can trim a proportionate amount of production in Oshawa without breaking its promise to the Canadian government. Early on July 8, GM reported a 34% decline in June sales, to 176,571 cars and light trucks, in its domestic market. Year-to-date sales have collapsed 41%, to 954,356 vehicles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada Spends Big to Save GM, So Why Not Mexico? | 7/3/2009 | See Source »

...cuts amount to a 2.5 percent reduction in the School's staff workforce, according to FAS spokesman Steve Bradt, who also said that no faculty were affected by the downsizing. He declined to state where the layoffs occurred, saying only that they were spread throughout FAS. But Harvard College Library, a unit of FAS, was the source of roughly 20 of those 77 layoffs, according to an announcement last week that also said the libraries had cut hours for several others employees...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FAS Lays Off 77 Staffers | 7/3/2009 | See Source »

...past, federal-loan repayment was structured so that a graduate would have to pay a certain amount of money each month, regardless of his or her income at the time. Under the IBR program, if you lose your job or are forced to take a pay cut, the amount you have to pay back per month will drop. If, however, your salary subsequently increases, your payments will still be capped at 15% of your disposable income. That is, of course, if you are eligible to participate in the program; grads with private loans are exempted as well as those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New College-Loan Plan: Pay Back By What You Earn | 7/2/2009 | See Source »

...more expensive than going to Home Depot, where I used to get it, but the guy there could direct me to exactly the type of mulch I wanted, he carried it to my car, it's much closer, and I got exactly what I wanted in the right amount. So the satisfaction I got was not in the price, which was higher than I normally pay, but from the stuff. That's a switch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Cheap Stuff Really Costs Us | 7/2/2009 | See Source »

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