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That's the same bind that NBC, and media companies at large, are in. People aren't going to enjoy watching a lame prime-time talk show for the satisfaction of knowing they're helping the parent company save on payroll. People who expect something else - lavish scripted dramas or typo-free news from costly foreign bureaus - will get alienated and leave, only deepening the revenue spiral that led to the cuts in the first place...
...company's rivals are on track to post even bigger gains: Cash America and EZCorp are currently projecting earnings growth of up to 20% in fiscal 2010. The three companies' stocks improved in 2009 - Cash America climbed 28%, First Cash rose 16% and EZCorp was up 13% - and analysts expect the rally to continue this year. "You've got cheap stocks growing at 20% a year," says Coffey, "so the stage is set for a pretty good...
...event to expect is a visit from the club’s Grandmaster Keun Ha Kim, who will be traveling all the way from Canada to Cambridge in order to test Harvard's black belts. The Grandmaster, who last visited three or four years ago, only makes an appearance for special occasions, said Xie. (Cool fact: taekwondo Olympic silver medalist Mark Lopez, another special guest, helped jumpstart the celebrations last semester by coming to Harvard to run a training seminar...
...crusade for governance reform—an anonymous Harvard professor suggests that Lewis should be appointed to the Corporation, and Harvard blogger Richard Bradley writes that “some other folks need to start stepping up to the plate”—don’t expect Lewis to lead a rally outside Mass. Hall anytime soon...
...since we don't expect her to make an appearance on the T anytime soon, we'll have to fully appreciate what we do have: if we ever pass some of these formerly pantless Bostonians on the Red Line, we'll definitely give them a holler...