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...into the company's income. Its rental revenues have declined each quarter this year compared with last. Blockbuster has responded by investing in video-game rentals and launching its own online subscription service. It's "surprising that Blockbuster would choose to spend so much reinforcing its presence in the brick-and-mortar portion of this business," says Marla Backer, a Research Associates--Soleil analyst. If the Blockbuster deal is struck, the combined company will control roughly 50% of the traditional rental market--which means antitrust regulators will probably get involved. Movie Gallery notes that this is not a problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biz Briefs: A Bid for a Bigger Blockbuster | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...spirit of this week’s issue, we’ve turned the spotlight on our bedeviling but beloved brick building on Plympton St., headquarters of the vast Hebrew conspiracy to take over the media. Merry Christmas...

Author: By FM Staff, | Title: Gadfly | 12/16/2004 | See Source »

...initial death toll from 50,000 to 26,271, but many of the surviving population of about 100,000 believe the true number is closer to the initial estimate. In 12 seconds of annihilation, the quake destroyed 85% of the city's buildings, flattening thousands of traditional mud-brick homes as well as Bam's approximately 2,000-year-old Citadel, an imposing clay fortress that once adorned the ancient Silk Road. Despite the hard work of Iranian and international relief agencies, Bam remains a disaster zone. The streets are full of bricks, tangled metal and rubble. For now, many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Year After the Quake: Still Digging Out | 12/12/2004 | See Source »

...region. Annette Thomas Clarkston, Michigan, U.S. Arafat imbued the Palestinian movement with self-deception. For years in Palestinian-controlled areas, he suppressed a free press, the element of society that might have furnished a self-correcting guidance to Palestinian policies. Arafat hurled Palestinian forces headlong into the brick wall of Israeli military strength. Yasser Arafat's legacy is a shattered economy, a bankrupt government and numerous militant organizations like Hamas. Donald Mintz Sunnyvale, California, U.S. Hot Times in the Arctic "Meltdown!" [Nov. 22], your article on the impact of global warming in the Arctic, was especially timely in the wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 12/12/2004 | See Source »

...Arafat imbued the Palestinian movement with self-deception. For years in Palestinian-controlled areas, he suppressed a free press, the element of society that might have furnished a self-correcting guidance to Palestinian policies. Arafat hurled Palestinian forces headlong into the brick wall of Israeli military strength. Yasser Arafat's legacy is a shattered economy, a bankrupt government and numerous militant organizations like Hamas. Donald Mintz Sunnyvale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 12/12/2004 | See Source »

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