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...big recession surprises...
...important were those specialty arms? In 2007, they accounted for more than 30% of indie box-office revenues. The big studios' specialty divisions were also key players in film-festival bidding wars, often paying between $2 million and $10 million per film. This year the highest price paid for a film at the Toronto festival was $1 million by the Weinstein Co. for Tom Ford's A Single Man. "Indie Bloodbath" was how influential movie-industry blogger Anne Thompson described the dearth of high-priced sales at the festival. (See how to plan for retirement...
Buildings may topple and lives may be lost if the Big One shakes the wrong part of California but another catastrophic consequence of an enormous earthquake in the San Francisco area may involve water. Two thirds of the state's drinking water supply flows through the gigantic Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta region east of San Francisco Bay - and the levees that help direct the massive amounts of water south to farmlands and cities are so antiquated that many may simply collapse with a major temblor. The resulting flooding could also put California's huge farm belt, hundreds of thousands...
Everyone has known of that doomsday scenario for years - a time in which the needs of farmers, the ambitions of environmentalists and the thirst of cities clashed. The big news this week is that California finally passed legislation to overhaul the state's aging water system. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called it "an historic agreement" and promised to sign into law. "Water is the lifeblood of everything we do in California," Schwarzenegger said. "Without clean reliable water, we cannot build, we cannot farm, we cannot grow, we cannot prosper." (See a story about the water crisis in the American west...
...big on doing things that are a waste of time. If it's a waste of time, get rid of it. If it's a bad manager, get rid of them." - Summarizing his management philosophy (New York Times...