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...says spending money and saving it are two different things? A new breed of companies is trying to convince consumers that shopping and socking away cash can, in fact, happily coexist. BondRewards, for example, lets you shop online at retailers like Target, Barnes & Noble and PETsMART and then recoup a small percentage of the purchase price in the form of U.S. savings bonds. Register at BondRewards.com then click on one of the 150 listed e-tailers. Every time you buy something, a percentage of the total ticket gets kicked into an account; when you've got enough for a savings...
...Going Down RUSSIA Not even a bailout offer from a consortium led by ex-Yukos official Konstantin Kagalovsky could reverse a slide in the oil giant's stock. As court bailiffs threatened to sell its core asset, Yuganskneftegaz, to recoup $3.4 billion in back taxes, the prospect of bankruptcy loomed too large...
...river. Throughout the report on undergraduate life, the task force offers a range of options on spending for everything from sports facilities to arts space. We urge Allston planners to seriously consider the most expensive options in the report. Harvard will have many opportunities for capital campaigns to recoup Allston expenses, but it will only have one chance to create this new campus from scratch...
Hybrids have plenty of detractors. Critics point out that after paying the extra cash for one, say a $2,500 premium for a hybrid Civic, it will take about a decade to recoup that amount at the pump (at 15,000 miles a year and with gas at $2 per gal.). They claim that if fuel economy becomes an even more important consideration, there are already plenty of fuel-efficient cars and smaller SUVs that are less complex and easier to fix than hybrids...
...gauge a film’s potential success and target audience. This is largely ineffective. Paramount Pictures must somehow have found the only ten people on the planet likely to enjoy Twisted, branded them a focus group and gave the movie a green light. The movie failed to recoup even half its budget. Most of the movies in this week’s top ten will fail to make their studios a profit until every last cent has been squeezed out of merchandising and television broadcast rights. With such an inefficient business model, it’s amazing that...