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...showings, where the cost of admission is perhaps 30% higher, The Hangover makes its money the old-fashioned way: at regular ticket prices. That means that many more people saw the R-rated comedy on its opening weekend. They liked what they saw, spread the word, kept the momentum rolling: the picture made another $27 million in the Monday-to-Thursday period, as opposed to $19 million for Up. Success like this becomes its own news, the buzz phrase du jour. And that generates more business. We conclude with what WNYC host Brian Lehrer calls an Uncommon Economic Indicator...
...party now has chapters in more than 20 countries and members feel a growing sense of momentum. "We had expected to see 18-year-old computer science students as the first arrivals, but look at our forum and you'll see a chartered accountant, a retired policeman, and a middle-aged punk all pulling in the same direction," Jonathon Than of the U.K. Pirate Party says. "A month ago getting our name on a ballot paper was a daunting task, today it's an inevitability...
...water's surface - hence more waves. Waves during a storm may reach 20 ft. and appear roughly every six to eight seconds. How do they compare to the surf in Hawaii and California? Pacific waves tend to be stronger and longer than those in the Midwest because they gain momentum from crossing thousands of miles from Asia. They may be twice as tall and appear every 10 to 12 seconds during a storm...
...more than 30% of the vote in the 2008 presidential primary. McAuliffe in particular has made a push for black voters, focusing on issues like cracking down on predatory payday lending and aggressively pursuing endorsements from the state's civil rights leaders. While Deeds appears to have the momentum, Sabato says, the race is far too close to call. (See 10 things that never happened in a campaign before...
...Professor Elisa New says that although her first two attempts at revising the English concentration flopped, the College’s curricular review—initiated by her husband, former University President Lawrence H. Summers—helped the reform movement within the English department gain “momentum.”The “idea that the rest of the world was reforming itself” helped convince a number of English professors that it was time to review their own requirements, New says.Music department chair Anne C. Shreffler says that the curricular review helped professors think...