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...makers can afford to sell LCD TVs at lower prices. "Manufacturers [of LCD panels] will have to cut prices substantially, and that should be positive news for the TV business," says Ryota Sugishita, a technology analyst at Daiwa Institute of Research in Taiwan. Sugishita expects LCD-TV prices to plummet 30% a year...
...immediate cause of the crackdown was a recent spate of reports that the government planned to unload some of its holdings in Krung Thai and Siam City banks, which caused their share prices to plummet?and prompted Thirachai to pointedly deny the reports and announce the new restrictions at a hastily convened press conference. That incident was just the latest example of regulators trying to control an unruly market. With a total capitalization of only $121 billion?far less than half of Microsoft's current market cap of $295 billion?the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) is dominated by small...
...same thing. Beautiful women throw themselves at handsome men?Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai?and the men often step aside. Love, the playwright Terry Johnson wrote, is something you fall in. Wong's films make art out of that vertiginous feeling. They soar as their characters plummet...
Last fall, Harvard reverted its early application policy back to Single-Choice Early Action, a non-binding plan prohibiting applicants from simultaneously applying early to another school. This change caused Early Action application numbers to plummet by almost 50 percent...
...formation of the Polish Social Democracy (SDPL) party, which he said will aim "to adjust [Polish] law and institutions to E.U. requirements, improve public finances and reform health insurance." Miller, who as a result of corruption scandals, failed health reforms and planned austerity measures has seen his popularity plummet to 9% since taking office in 2001, announced he will be stepping down on May 2. Borowski said he would support the new administration - former Finance Minister Marek Belka, Foreign Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz and Interior Minister Józef Oleksy are tipped as possible successors - but warned that he favored fresh...