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...That's what China's new investors think, too. Punters gathered to swap stocks and stories at the Beijing branch office of the China Galaxy Securities brokerage house on Jan. 29 certainly weren't letting a small drop in the market that day dampen their spirits. "I guess the fluctuation will go on for a while, maybe for another month or so," says Jiang Yulan, a trading aficionado, "but in a long term, the price will be going up by the end of this year." So confident are the assembled san hu that they don't even consider trading...
...revolutionary. It is not an innovation in technology, just in packaging. How can a company make more money? Combine more things into one product and charge more. And accessorize, accessorize, accessorize. If I bought all the stuff that Apple makes for the iPod, I would be broke. I guess Jobs is a genius--a marketing genius...
...invested the first $75,000 from Come Blow Your Horn in "cattle that froze to death in Montana." A far bigger error: selling the TV rights to The Odd Couple to Paramount when it made the movie, on the presumption that it would never become a series?a bad guess that Simon says may have cost him as much as $20 million. Later on he bought the Eugene O'Neill Theater on Broadway as a home for his plays. That had the unexpected result of making him the employer of his mother: she came to work on the box-office...
...initiative to cut the current rate was overwhelmingly supported by the House by a 356 to 71 margin. Suzanne Day, who handles Harvard’s federal relations in Washington, said that the Bush administration will likely oppose the bill. “It is hard to guess [if the bill will become law] because the Congress is so new, and getting legislation passed and signed is daunting,” Day said. “I would be surprised to see anything done in the first half of this year.” The legislation was introduced...
...what to eat the night before an exam? “Actually, I don’t have any specific suggestions. It is important to be in the best of health, and this will be the result of smart eating and regular physical activity over the whole semester. I guess it doesn’t help to cram food any more than to cram books...