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...Kodak laboratory, which controlled all processing. In 1954, the Department of Justice declared Kodachrome-processing a monopoly, and the company agreed to allow other finishing plants to develop the film; the price of a roll of film - which previously had the processing cost added into it - fell roughly 43%. (Read about Kodak's antitrust case...
...away" in 1973, Kodak was still expanding its Kodachrome line, and it was hard to believe that it would ever disappear. But by the mid-1980s, video camcorders and more easily processed color film from companies like Fuji and Polaroid encroached on Kodachrome's market share, and the film fell into disfavor. Compared to the newer technology, Kodachrome was a pain to develop. It required a large processing machine and several different chemicals and over a dozen processing steps. The film would never, ever be able to make the "one-hour photo" deadline that customers increasingly came to expect. Finally...
...cocktail of familiar ingredients from earlier Bullock hits. In While You Were Sleeping she had to pretend she was in love with a handsome guy (Peter Gallagher) while his family pushed them together. In Two Weeks Notice she was the underling who couldn't stand her boss, then fell in love with him; here she's the boss and generic hunk Ryan Reynolds is the aggrieved assistant. And in her one solo hit, Miss Congeniality, she was a gruff FBI agent who went undercover as a perky contestant in a beauty pageant; this time she's a bitch on heels...
...Fisher fell on hard times after the 1929 crash--getting by thanks only to the generosity of a wealthy sister-in-law and his employer, Yale--and so did the myth of the rational market. For a few decades, financial markets were seen as unruly beasts that had to be tamed with tight regulation to help protect the hard-earned savings of regular Americans. But memories of the 1930s eventually faded, and in the 1950s, the idea that markets knew best began its comeback. This was part ideological reaction to the antimarket conventions of the day, part scientific progress...
...According to Klinefelter's research, teens are making fewer trips to the store; teen spending on fashion products fell 13% this spring. Only 35% of the teens Piper Jaffray surveyed had part-time work this spring, compared with 50% four years ago. "Teens definitely have much greater awareness of what's going on around them now than they did eight years ago," says Klinefelter. "They're seeing the news on their computers and cell phones, and are very aware that we're in a recession." (See the top 10 business deals...