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...huge and unexpected triumph of A Room with a View has brought in lavish Hollywood offers but has failed to alter Merchant's pinchpenny philosophy. Made for a mere $3 million -- one-fourth the cost of the average Hollywood movie -- it is expected to gross $50 million and is a strong contender for Oscar nominations. Maurice, which is also an adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel, will cost even less, $2.5 million, and feature two relatively unknown actors, James Wilby as Maurice and Hugh Grant as Clive, his first romance. "Ismail has tremendous charm and substitutes it for the lack...
...growing number of children under age two are, like Noelle, victims of misguided parental notions of a healthy diet, warns Pugliese. Restrictive diets, he notes, now account for about one-fourth of the cases of failure to thrive seen at the hospital. Pugliese and Pediatric Nutritionist Michelle Weyman-Daum reviewed the records of seven children, age seven months to 22 months, and found that the youngsters were all on low-fat, low-cholesterol diets and getting only 63% to 94% of the calories they needed. Parents typically substituted skim milk for whole, fed their toddlers lean meat and complex carbohydrates...
...impasse arose earlier this year after club management replaced union employees with non-union workers for high-pay weekend functions. Non-Harvard workers, who are paid only one-fourth of what regular workers receive, were brought in to reduce labor costs at the deficit-ridden club, administrators said...
Though oil prices have been drifting downward since 1981, the current price war began when Saudi Arabia got fed up with its OPEC partners. For years the kingdom, which holds about one-fourth of the world's oil reserves, tried almost single-handed to prop up prices by curbing its production. The country wound up slashing its output from a peak of 10.3 million bbl. a day in 1981 to ! a low of 2 million bbl. a day last June. During that time its annual oil revenue fell from $113 billion to $28 billion. Many of the other twelve countries...
...Hoffmann-La Roche, the New York Times. On March 1, Du Pont became the newest name on the list. And this spring, AT&T, which already tests applicants at plants where volatile chemicals are handled, will start screening all potential employees at its manufacturing facilities for drug use. About one-fourth of the FORTUNE 500 companies now screen applicants for drugs, and an additional 20% are expected to begin doing so this year...