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...Facts Video Guide, which catalogs nude scenes in R-rated movies). But as the co-owner of Royal Oaks Entertainment, which produces a dozen or so action-adventure titles a year for the foreign market, he's pleased to say R.I.P. to low-budget DTV. "The studios increased their output of theatrical films, the mom-and-pop video stores got squeezed out by the major chains, and the advent of satellite and DirecTV alleviated the necessity of driving to a corner video store. In short, the novelty of video has worn...
Trimming the number of films is simpler than cutting production and advertising budgets. Ironically the most aggressive trimmer has been Disney, the same company that started the more-is-better strategy a few years ago. Studio chairman Joe Roth says the company will cut its output from 35 movies a year to 18; creative types are already bracing for a Disney downsizing...
...past what point? Is any rise of greater than 2% to 2.5% in national output dangerous, as the conventional wisdom has long held? Or has inflation been so tamed that output can safely grow at a rate of 3% to 3.5%, as more and more economists and businessmen now think? After all, the U.S. has enjoyed four years of inflation below 3%, the longest spell of price stability in three decades. Could the economy perhaps race ahead at 4% or even more, as a few radicals contend...
...words of Jared Hazleton, director of the Center for Business and Economic Analysis at Texas A&M. To begin with, many think that productivity is growing faster than the official figures show, a suspicion publicly voiced by Greenspan. One reason: the official measures are based largely on output of things--numbers of autos, board feet of lumber--and may be overlooking computer-driven gains, especially in service industries. "It's very hard to measure electronic bits floating around in the atmosphere," notes Hazleton...
...even his wall decorations betray his true love. Scrolled across the back of his room is a poster depicting a graph resembling the output from a seismograph. "It's the Riemann zeta function on the critical line," says Kedlaya. Apparently, solving a problem relating to the function is tantamount in prestige to proving Fermat's Last Theorem...