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...films playing in a theater near you. But you'll probably never get a chance to see it. With the Academy Awards - Hollywood's annual celebration of global dominance - now come and gone, it's worth considering why trade in so many European films is at a standstill. Only one-third of the films produced in Europe ever make it outside their home borders. Between 1996 and 2003, only about 50 European-made films were distributed in 12 or more E.U. countries. By contrast, around half of the approximately 550 U.S. feature films produced every year hit European screens. Although...
...product of seven years of thought and a new, $1.5-million database. Unfortunately, all this time and money didn’t produce wholly usable statistics. In its measurement of undergraduate six-year graduation rate, the report neglects to include transfer students, who can account for nearly one-third of a school’s population, according to Framingham State College President Helen Heineman. The real number may well be closer to the national average...
...Murdoch, Rupert's eldest son and the deputy chief operating officer of News Corp., who grasped her potential. Besides the books, published worldwide by HarperCollins, and the magazine, published by News Magazines in Australia (both divisions of News Corp.), Hay has a pan-Australian newspaper column, which reaches roughly one-third of the nation's population. All of this while helping Wilson on their farm near Sydney...
Female heads of households (without a partner or spouse) could use a financial leg up, according to a new study from the Consumer Federation of America and Catharine P. Montalto, a professor at Ohio State University. The report showed that these women on average have one-half the median income and one-third the net worth of other household heads. As a result, says Stephen Brobeck, director of the Consumer Federation of America, many of them are likely to live on the edge of solvency. Women in these situations need financial guidance so that they don't miss...
...Less than 5% of Marine reservists are women; about one-third are minorities...