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While Dixit emphasized the flexibility of an economics major, Siegfried emphasized that trends in numbers of economics concentrators nationwide do not correlate with the perception that the degree will confer an edge in the job market. His research has not substantiated that the difficulty of finding a job is linked to economics degrees...
...perhaps a fifth of what was needed, says media investor Harold Vogel, author of Entertainment Industry Economics. But the backbreaker has been DVD sales, where many films now derive most of their profit. Moviemakers are so beholden to retailers like Wal-Mart and Best Buy that studio execs routinely confer with them before setting release dates. There are so many new releases that retailers afford each a much shorter shelf life. And with 80% of U.S. households owning DVD players, fewer people are rushing out to replace their old tapes--slowing DVD sales. Those shifts have made forecasting sales difficult...
...were poring over tapes of closed-circuit television (cctv) footage taken at King's Cross on the day of the bombings. They soon had a match. One tape showed a man who resembled Hussain talking with three other men at around 8:20 a.m. On the tape, the men confer briefly, then go their separate ways. At 8:50, the first three bombs went off. Police quickly pieced together the men's previous movements. A cctv camera had recorded them earlier that morning at Luton, 45 km north of London, where they caught a train to King's Cross. They...
...Guantánamo scandals have spoiled whatever claim the U.S. had to moral values. Israel and America are not champions of moral clarity. Both have been attacked, and both have retaliated by victimizing innocent people. Sharansky also complained of the moral equivalence that Amnesty's reports seem to confer on both terrorist regimes and democratic societies. There may be no moral equivalence between a terrorist attack and a retaliation, but let's at least be honest about it. Both are-and should be called-atrocities. We should let Amnesty International alone. To attack its work is truly immoral. Simon Hytten...
...called peace process in the Middle East made no discernible headway. Nature joined politics in contributing to human misery as earthquakes in Mexico City, a volcano eruption in Colombia and a cyclone in Bangladesh claimed tens of thousands of victims. In the U.S., Reagan became the first President to confer the full powers of his office voluntarily on his Vice President, George Bush, though only for eight hours, while surgeons removed a cancerous growth from Reagan's colon. The President recovered quickly and apparently completely, but apart from the summit his political momentum seemed to wane. Reagan's success...