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McCauley, editor of the Quarterly's poetry board--not to be confused with the Board Board--says the Board Board has gradually begun to attract a more diverse audience. Harless, who is an economics graduate student, is the proud author of the Board Board's "Capital Asset Pricing Poem...
Paramount ranked second to Disney in box-office share but was the first to take the budget-pruning pledge after suffering several embarrassing stiffs. Godfather III, which cost at least $55 million, started strong but sagged after several weeks. All told, Paramount has had to lower the estimated asset values of five of the 15 films it released in 1990. Since the summer, Paramount has trimmed its staff, shaken up the studio's production staff and halved the number of films in development (to 125). For this year, Paramount still plans big-budget films with stars, but the company intends...
...Bolster a "strategic asset." Israel was a key component of America's fervent struggle to contain Communism during the Cold War. Rather than station American troops in the Middle East as it did in Western Europe and the Far East, the U.S. relied on Israel's quick-to-mobilize national army to keep the Evil Empire's influence out of the region...
...cites the pass-fail grading of all classes as a benefit of the system, but says that students still prepare because the small tutorials make evasion difficult. The reliance on essays rather than multiple choice testing is also a positive asset, he says...
Kuwait's foreign-asset portfolio approaches a monumental $100 billion, which is invested in a bewildering array of stocks, bonds and entire companies around the world. Almost 70% of the total has been segregated for use when the wells run dry. The Fund for Future Generations, as it is called, is a model of enlightened policy and smart politics. "Other rulers in other places have kept the money for themselves and their friends, doling out just enough to keep their populations contained during their reigns," says Jasem Mohammed al-Hussein, a wealthy Kuwaiti businessman. "Our rulers, the Sabahs, have earned...