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...spine of the packaging. That lets you know, when you look at your collection lined up on a shelf, where the gaps are. The dedicated collector will feel these gaps like they were missing bicuspids. This plays to his or her worst pathologies and has probably boosted Criterion's profit margins by a healthy amount every year...
...today would argue that the news industry is anything but that: an industry. That is to say, it competes to sell a product, turn a profit, and do it all over again the next day. The major news networks—and they are “networks” in the sense of being synchronized for the same purpose—have become giant businesses. As a result, those of us who revel in knowledge are blessed with a deluge of it: 24-hour news channels, e-mail updates, and news websites with handheld access...
...Although not immediately more profitable. In mid-October Sony revised forecasts for its 2007 fiscal year, which ends in March, predicting a 38% decline in net income, to about $435 million. The losses are partly owing to charges for the battery recall and delays in launching the highly complex PS3. For fiscal 2008, Stringer is still predicting a 5% rise in profit margins, though he admits he's not sure how he'll achieve it. "But I am not altering the profit target...
...FURTHERBut is this enough? For Batter and others, more can be done.“For every student that gets in the gate, one is left out,” says Jeannie Asher Rosenthal ’00, who founded Let’s Get Ready (LGR), a non-profit organization that counsels lower-income students through SAT tutoring and college processes. “I don’t think that what these companies are doing is wrong or immoral but the industry as a whole creates an externality that’s troubling.”LGR specifically...
...Harvard,” Petersen said. If the tax is not repealed, the Women in Business group will have to look for other ways to receive tax-deductible gifts, said group president Tracy L. Britt ’07. “Student organizations can get their own non-profit status, but it’s a lot of paperwork,” Britt said. “As a result, it will put more responsibility on a student organization that has high student turnover each year.” UC members debated contributing the UC’s funds...