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Students looking to comment on the crispiness of their popcorn chicken or the availability of cracklin’ oat bran in their dining hall on the recent biannual Harvard University Dining Services survey found themselves disappointed, after HUDS changed the format of the questionnaire from past years. On this semester’s dining satisfaction Survey, HUDS focused primarily on sustainability, with 11 out of 25 survey questions relating directly to this issue. They also eliminated the section for open-ended response,s instead using a multiple choice format. In the past, HUDS’ survey provided a forum...
When the movie Iron Man hit video stores Sept. 30 - the same week Congress was squabbling over the $700 billion bailout bill - it sold 500,000 copies on Blu-Ray in seven days, a record for the nascent high-definition home entertainment format. In bad times, we still need our good times, maybe more than ever. At least that's what the companies that sell TV, movies, video games and other recreational commodities are counting on as the economic crisis deepens. "People are feeling like they're depriving themselves of fun they would be having by buying...
...home entertainment industry is also counting on the new Blu-Ray technology to help carry it through the downturn. With Blu-Ray players now available for less than $200, Adams expects consumers to adopt the high-def format as readily as they did VHS during the 1981 recession. "Household adoption of new technologies seems to shrug off recessions," Adams says - and as the Iron Man sales show, worrying economic news doesn't seem to be slowing consumers down...
...least at the margin. Reto Francioni, CEO of Deutsche Borse, a stock exchange in Frankfurt, described how volatility disruptions now kick in hundreds of times a day. When a stock's price jumps outside of its proscribed range, word goes out and trading switches over to an auction format for about five minutes to give all the market participants a chance to regroup, process any new information they might have - and to prevent the volatility from feeding on itself. "When markets aren't acting rationally, it's healthy to slow them down," said Richard Rosenblatt, CEO of the trading shop...
...into a good college. The College Board, the nonprofit that owns the PSAT and SAT, on Oct. 22 unveiled a new exam designed to assess eighth graders' readiness for high school and college courses. The two-hour test, known as ReadiStep, will launch next fall, using a multiple-choice format divided into sections that evaluate students' reading, writing and math skills...