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...additional information that model A was a 4-megapixel camera while model B was a 2-megapixel version, a full 75% chose model A. "People say, I don't trust my own experience, but I trust those numbers," explains Hsee. How information is presented can also have a drastic effect: when resolution was expressed as 2,900 dots on the diagonal as opposed to 4 million over the entire screen, preference for model A fell back...
...industry accounts for almost 16% of the Texas gross domestic product, double what it was five years ago, and that means any slowing in that sector will have a ripple effect on the state's overall economy. "There are signs of a slowdown," says Amarillo energy economist Karr Ingham. "The jury is still out on whether it will become a bust...
...There was a time when politicians, bankers and bureaucrats in Asian countries thought that certain large enterprises were simply too important to go bankrupt, no matter how miserable their performance. The resulting unemployment would be unacceptable, the impact on the financial sector and economic growth too great. That, in effect, is the same argument being used today by supporters of a government rescue for the cash-burning U.S. auto industry. The consequences of allowing a manufacturing giant like GM to collapse would, their thinking goes, be too onerous for an economy already in recession to stomach. (See the 10 worst...
...reaching a sustainable average. "The yen's level until last year was abnormally weak. Now it's coming back to normal," he says. Compared to the mid-1990s, he says, the strong yen's negative impact on the Japanese economy is "not that large." To have the same effect as the postwar peak in 1995, the exchange rate would have to reach 48 yen to the dollar, he says, because the U.S. economy has experienced 40% cumulative inflation while Japan has remained relatively flat. "If we think about the inflation rate differentials, the yen is not that strong right...
...comedies with a Pop art design scheme; they aimed to get to endearing by going through aggressive. Reed found a subtler tone in his Vince Vaughn-Jennifer Aniston hit The Break-Up, in which both the humor and the despair rose from domestic behavior that, if exaggerated for dramatic effect, was still recognizable. Yes Man straddles those two styles. It ambles along, Judd Apatow-style (and includes a fellatio gag that should have earned the movie an R rating) while affording Carrey a few opportunities for his patented rubber-face comedy pyrotechnics. The more impressionable kids will be imitating...