Word: reached
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...office take in the U.S. and Canada dropped 7%, to $3.75 billion. The number of tickets sold fell 11%, to 1.06 billion. For the first year since 1979, no film returned as much as $100 million to its makers (though Back to the Future, the 1985 champ, should soon reach that goal). Variety Industry Analyst Art Murphy sees this slump as a cyclical phenomenon: the film economy booms, too many films are made to chase the extra dollars, the flurry of competition leads to hasty decisions, then the poor fare drives ticket buyers away. This summer, for example, young viewers...
...prospect of composing films for the TV set instead of for the movie screen stirs mixed feelings among directors. John Sayles (Return of the Secaucus Seven) believes, "It's better to view a film in a theater; that's what it's shot for. But to reach people, it's good the VCR is out there. I see first-run theaters as becoming the 'loss leader' for the VCR, like hard-cover books for the paperback industry or a tuna special for the grocery store." Paul Schrader (American Gigolo, Mishima) is even more emphatic: "The times they are achangin...
Determined as they are to keep what they can in salaries and benefits, the airline's employees understand that the threat of bankruptcy is very real. They hope to start up new negotiations with Eastern's management and reach a compromise...
...programs' tuition costs vary depending on their length, but reach a high with the current $22,500 price tag for the PMD and AMP programs. The participant's sponsor company must agree to pay this fee--which covers room, board and tuition for the length of the program--in addition to paying the executive's salary during the time. The program brings in about a fifth of the school's total income and helps keep it on good terms with major corporations, which provide the bulk of the material used for the 650 case studies used in teaching each year...
...will not speculate as to the specific cause of the explosion based on that footage," said Jesse Moore, NASA's top shuttle administrator. National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials are organizing an investigating board and Moore said it will take a "careful review" of all data "before we can reach any conclusions...