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...Such financial problems are not unique to Le Monde. France's national, general-interest dailies seem unable to make money. Despite generous subsidies on postage and a television advertising ban due to expire by 2007 for retailers and publishing houses, last year newspapers attracted only 15.7% in total advertising outlay in France, compared to 43.5% in Germany, 39.7% in Britain and 31.4% in the U.S. Finally, the papers are hampered by rigid and expensive union contracts; a proposal to switch the afternoon Le Monde to the morning failed in part because the printers' union didn't want to work nights...
...care less how much of their monthly payment represents interest; they just want to know the payment won't change. One way to fix the payment without the cost of fixing the rate is to hold an adjustable-maturity mortgage--in which the payoff period, not the monthly outlay, rises and falls with interest rates. Outside the U.S., fixed-rate deals are far less common, and adjustable-maturity mortgages are readily available. An ARM with a lifetime rate adjustment of just 2 percentage points (as opposed to the standard 6) also addresses this issue...
Hambali said an initial al-Qaeda outlay of $30,000 was used to fund the bombing a year ago of two nightclubs in Bali that left 202 dead. "Al-Qaeda was highly satisfied with the Bali bombing and as a result provided additional money" totaling $100,000, according to an interrogation report. Of the $45,000 allocated to J.I. in Indonesia, Hambali said, $15,000 was earmarked to support the families of the jailed Bali plotters. The remaining $30,000 was to be used for terrorist attacks. Hambali speculated that some of it was spent on the August attack...
...task, will close by summer's end, even while the military struggles to keep the peace in Iraq. Army officials say the closure, endorsed by Rumsfeld, is a money-saving measure, though the institute's $1 million annual budget represents only .00025% of the military's annual $400 billion outlay. "Closing the Peacekeeping Institute reflects the Army's priorities, but we're in danger of losing in Iraq because we haven't figured out how to do postwar missions," says Peter Galbraith, a former U.S. diplomat now lecturing military officers at the National Defense University. "We should be strengthening...
...King of Prussia, Pa., to bigger quarters in nearby Conshohocken, is looking even further ahead to a roving pre-checkout system, using wireless technology for mobile cashiers. Home Depot, based in Atlanta, recently invested heavily in self-checkout technology, which should be fully online by this summer. A cash outlay isn't the only answer or even the best one. Jim Dion notes that in the Midwest, Jewel grocery stores, a division of Albertson's, have their cashiers circle the preferred-customer savings on the register tape before handing it to the shopper. "Nice little touch," Dion says approvingly. "Maybe...