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...Until clinching this purchase, Tata's main claim to fame was its recent introduction of the $2,500 Nano, a basic box on wheels sold only in India. Will luxury car buyers be put off by Jags (the price of Jaguar's latest sports car is more than $64,000) and Land Rovers made by an Indian company that also sells the world's cheapest car? "Not if it's sensitively handled," Wormald says. That means for the foreseeable future, both brands will likely continue to be produced in the U.K., to keep their British-made pedigree intact. Furthermore...
...Even during The Great Depression, Americans managed to scrape together enough nickels to take in escapist fare like Marx Brothers comedies and monster flicks. Box office grosses rose during five of the last seven economic downturns in the U.S. - including the '70s oil crisis and the burst of the dot-com bubble in the early 2000s. It's not just a ticket price bump that accounts for the extra dough, either - the total number of movies people see in a year tends to rise in recessionary periods...
...Money concerns typically haven't been what keeps people glued to their sofas, says Paul Dergarabedian, president of Media by Numbers, a box office analysis firm in Encino, Calif. "This business is product-driven," Dergerabedian says. "People decide whether to go to the movies based on how compelling the films...
...Solo and Groucho Marx enticed audiences to the box office in bad times, but they didn't have to compete with hundreds of cable channels and home theater systems as unspeakably powerful as the Death Star, did they? "That makes it a little harder to predict," concedes Dergarabedian. "But I still think the recession will have a negligible effect. If anything, you might see people cutting back on concessions." That's what belt-tightening looks like in the America in 2008 - popcorn movies without popcorn...
...play our game, and we can’t worry about what the other team is going to bring.”For a team capable of scoring 11 goals only to allow seven just 24 hours apart, executing fundamentals and staying out of the penalty box becomes critical given that Harvard’s season is now over the moment the team loses. The team believes that these are the keys to consistency.“It’s pretty obvious that we can’t survive without playing our best hockey. The focus and discipline...