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...other papers struggle to cope with plummeting advertising sales in the economic downturn, the young German entrepreneurs say they're confident they can weather the slump. They say they will rely both on newspaper sales and advertising revenues to turn a profit, and they already have a couple of large German advertising clients lined up. "We've got an attractive business model because our clients can do targeted advertising and reach the readers they want," says Tiedemann...
Disney's much admired ability to maximize profit from every pop-culture nugget it creates - this is a company that made billions of dollars from movies based on Pirates of the Caribbean, a cheesy 10-minute boat ride - works only if it continues to create appealing characters and stories that it can cross-promote. When Gomez released her new album, Kiss & Tell, on Sept. 29, she celebrated with an appearance on ABC's Dancing with the Stars. She has a song that plays during the end credits of the first Tinkerbell DVD. While on hiatus from her show, Wizards...
William Jankowiak, anthropology professor at UNLV and former visiting professor at Harvard, is convinced of several things: most gamblers are liars, they usually remember their wins instead of their losses, and they don’t actually make much profit. In other words, compulsive gamblers have somehow convinced themselves that they are winning at an inherently losing game. “If you did all the calculations, you shouldn’t gamble. If you were really rationally put together, you wouldn’t gamble,” Jankowiak says. “There?...
...would be foolish not to take up the deal. The first 10 tosses might not generate any heads, leaving you $100 down—but in the larger scope of things, in a world attuned to the rules of probability, you will leave the game having gained a profit. But now, say the stakes are upped and instead of $11, your friend has to give you $110, and instead of $10, you have to give him $100. You could wipe out your entire coffer after 10 coin tosses. The idea is similar for smart poker-playing: the trick...
...Consortium, which the Seidmans founded in 1981, is a non-profit organization that promotes participatory lawmaking in developing countries. It brings together ministry officials and university professors representing over 40 nations with varying legal structures...