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...Beyond the numbers are the people. At least half of Up's domestic gross has come from its 3-D showings, where the cost of admission is perhaps 30% higher, The Hangover makes its money the old-fashioned way: at regular ticket prices. That means that many more people saw the R-rated comedy on its opening weekend. They liked what they saw, spread the word, kept the momentum rolling: the picture made another $27 million in the Monday-to-Thursday period, as opposed to $19 million for Up. Success like this becomes its own news, the buzz phrase...
...Acer CEO J.T. Wang chalks up the results to his company's willingness to adapt to unpleasant market realities. While competitors are trying to protect their profit margins by keeping prices of PCs stable, Acer, recognizing that consumers have less to spend nowadays, has been pushing low-cost computers including netbooks, shrunken portable PCs costing just a few hundred dollars. Wang says that computers priced under $500 are taking a larger share of overall sales; according to IDC, the average selling price of an Acer machine in the first quarter dropped to $611 from $855 a year earlier. "People...
...Acer these days, R&D is focused on reducing sticker shock. In May, for example, Acer launched new line of ultra-thin notebooks that can run for more than eight hours without recharging yet cost as little as $699. Wang claims these full-featured machines are unique in the market, and that it will take six to nine months for his competition to catch up. "It's not just low price," Wang says. "There is innovation in the product as well." Acer is entering the cell-phone business, and Wang makes no excuses for churning out low-margin netbooks, considered...
House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans who rarely cross party lines went along with the Democratic bill marked up in the health subcommittee Wednesday. Sponsors had agreed in negotiations with ranking GOP member Joe Barton to lower the originally proposed cost of a new annual licensing fee for every food-manufacturing, -processing and -packing plant from $1,000 to $500, with a $175,000 cap per company - a reduction also sought by GOP allies in industry...
...School had the highest rate, with nearly 41 percent (42 out of 103) of eligible staff members accepting the buyout.University spokesman Kevin Galvin declined to characterize the results of the program in any way, saying that the participation rate speaks for itself. He also declined to comment on the costs or savings achieved by the program, but noted that it was primarily funded through assets set aside for the University's defined-benefit pension plan.Harvard's financial report for fiscal year 2008 showed an apparent surplus of nearly $300 million in the University's pension-plan assets after subtracting away...