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...Monrovia's power plant has been severely damaged. The iron-ore mining industry, which earned Liberia more than $200 million a year in peacetime, will never recover; the cost of processing low-quality ore with out-of-date equipment is prohibitive. The rubber industry, Liberia's other main money earner, can be revived, but because of growing competition from Southeast Asia, it will never be as profitable...
...most "promising" because consumers look to them for both onscreen and online content. His studies indicate that cell-phone content may become way too pricey for most consumers. The right mix of advertising with video on demand, he contends, stands a good chance of breaking out as the biggest earner...
Dube’s post, though not a fully-realized research report, suggests that the increased minimum wage—more than $2,000 per year for each wage earner working full time—could have made the difference for many of the poor New Orleans residents who were unable to flee Hurricane Katrina. Imagine. What if just 100 people would have left New Orleans if they had had a few thousand more dollars to spend on transportation and hotel rooms? How many people lost their lives because the Louisiana Supreme Court didn’t think New Orleans...
Some of Gilliam's films have been hits: Time Bandits, The Fisher King and 12 Monkeys (his biggest earner, grossing nearly $169 million on a $30 million budget). Yet the zealot's rep sticks to him and makes potential backers wonder, What catastrophe will befall him this time...
...national tax agency released its annual list of the country's top 100 taxpayers. Tatsuro Kiyohara, a 46-year-old fund manager at Tower Investment Management, ranked No. 1, with a tax bill that suggested a personal income of approximately $100 million. This marked the first time a wage earner had captured the top spot, an occasion that many writers and talk-show hosts alternately hailed and lamented as a signature moment in the new, more Darwinian society?for Kiyohara's pay is almost entirely performance-based. The Nikkei Weekly business newspaper opined: "This new era is one in which...