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...terms of cost cutting, those points are accumulating. HP has shuttered nine assembly plants, cut 12,500 jobs and "rationalized" its product offerings, reducing them to 65,000 from 85,000. Result: $650 million in savings since the merger, which helped HP offset losses in its divisions that make PCs and enterprise-computing gear. "I'm keeping my shares," says Ben Rosen, Compaq's former chairman and a large shareholder. "HP is going to get so lean that earnings surprises will be on the upside...
...offset height disparity, Harvey said Harvard’s guards will sag into the paint to double-team the Holy Cross...
...need space. But home improvements are usually a poor investment, and they leave you with even more riding on the real estate market. Some envision selling their houses now, living in a rented place for a while, then buying a different house on the cheap later. But to offset transaction costs, on average, home prices would have to drop 20%--and you'd have to time it nearly perfectly...
...superbly restrained performances delivered by the supporting cast, which is a cavalcade of British acting luminaries. Dame Maggie Smith returns as the cantankerous yet kindly Professor McGonagall, while Robbie Coltrane provides a comic foil as the lovably gruff gamekeeper Hagrid. Simultaneously though, moments of hair-raising creepiness are offset by the considerable humor throughout, provided largely by Kenneth Branagh’s portrayal of new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Gilderoy Lockhart. Branagh positively revels in Lockhart’s self-obsessed dandy dress and mannerisms, a perfectly effected over-the-top caricature oblivious to the sinister events transpiring...
...superbly restrained performances delivered by the supporting cast, which is a cavalcade of British acting luminaries. Dame Maggie Smith returns as the cantankerous yet kindly Professor McGonagall, while Robbie Coltrane provides a comic foil as the lovably gruff gamekeeper Hagrid. Simultaneously though, moments of hair-raising creepiness are offset by the considerable humor throughout, provided largely by Kenneth Branagh’s portrayal of new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Gilderoy Lockhart. Branagh positively revels in Lockhart’s self-obsessed dandy dress and mannerisms, a perfectly effected over-the-top caricature oblivious to the sinister events transpiring...