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...million. Industry swamis are presumably banking on kids and their grandparents streaming to the Pixar movie on a summer Sunday, while the Warner puke-fest will have exhausted its core constituency. But that ignores The Hangover's very strong word of mouth; people who might not have gone now know this is the movie de jour. (Everybody who needs to know about Up already knows.) And as Dan Fellman, Warner's distribution chief, told the AP, "Sunday's always good for a hangover." By tomorrow, when the final figures come in, there could be a photo finish for first place...
...United States) on May 28, it came as no surprise - especially since the filing was timed to same-store sales comps for May, which for department stores like Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue were down a whopping 27% and 26.6%, respectively. (See pictures of retailers which have gone out of business...
...other goods to give to local charities. Bins are placed in the lobby of every residence hall, and student volunteers help sort through the piles. This year - the program's fourth - they have collected about 53,500 lb. (24,300 kg) of donatable goods, much of which would have gone straight into the trash in days of yore...
...commercials that actually invoked the June 4, 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square. A banker close to the Chinalco side of the deal said management there was "deeply disappointed" by some of the rhetoric used by opponents of the deal. In fact, this source says, Chinalco had in many respects "gone to school" on the CNOOC deal, in terms of "what not to do." Unlike CNOOC's attempt to buy UNOCAL outright, this was a minority investment, welcomed - at first, anyway - by Rio's management. There was the PR charm offensive by Xiong, who went to great pains to convince...
...housing subsidies and raise wages and pensions for government employees. "My parents are both retired teachers, and yet they could barely sustain our household of seven," said an enthusiastic Amin Kazemi, a 19-year-old student of software engineering, at Friday's rally. "Since Ahmadinejad, both their salaries have gone up and we can live with dignity." (See pictures of health care in Tehran...