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...movie studio has racked up at least $1 billion in North American box office revenues annually, even in years when the web-spinning superhero was on a hiatus. That streak was in jeopardy last year after a string of pricey flops (Remember Lords of Dogtown, Stealth and Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo?). Although Sony wound up hitting the $1 billion mark, it sank to third in the year-end rankings, putting it out of the top two places for the first time in the Spider-Man era. "Last year was something of an aberration," says William Drewry, an analyst at Credit...
...Average body mass index (BMI) of a citizen of Malta, the fattest nation in Europe, according to a European Commission survey 25.4 BMI of the average E.U. citizen. A rating above 25 is considered overweight...
...flowing style of play with which Hungary would dominate-and revolutionize-the game. After the Soviet Union crushed the Hungarian Uprising in 1956, the rebellious Puskás defected to the West, going on to score 324 goals for soccer powerhouse Real Madrid-four of them in a legendary European Cup final in 1960. After many years in exile, he returned to Hungary, which in 2001 renamed Budapest's national stadium in his honor...
...were customer access and certain advanced technologies." It's much faster to buy what you need than spend years building it up yourself. By purchasing Corus, for example, low-cost steel producer Tata Steel hopes to get access to technology to make more sophisticated products, as well as a European client base. By bidding for Daewoo, Videocon seeks a foothold in East Asian markets and an extended global marketing-and-sales network. There are other compelling reasons to go abroad. International exposure may be essential for Indian companies to maintain high sales-growth rates. Because of a host of problems...
Josh H. Billings ’07, a Classics and German concentrator who is affiliated with Leverett House, is editor of the Harvard Book Review, works for Persephone Magazine, and produces and directs opera with the Harvard Early Music Society and the Dunster House Opera. He intends to study European Literature while at Oxford...