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...venture is more than half financed from its own assets, the Disney organization is no longer the magic profitmaker that Uncle Walt bequeathed. Disney films have flopped almost without exception since Mary Poppins in 1964; the organization's celluloid bid for adult acceptance, TRON, has yet to recoup its $22 million expenditure. The recession and the declining appeal of its theme parks have reduced attendance at Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom. Epcot Center is expected to attract 9 million admissions its first year at a one-day price of $15. Disney strategy is to persuade guests to tarry...
...brokered through agencies. Direct subscriptions provide enough income per buyer to help offset printing and distribution costs. By comparison, agencies siphon off so much of the subscriber's payment that the magazine loses money on each copy. But the increase in readership is supposed to enable publishers to recoup through higher advertising rates. Saturday Review got the bulk of its readers through agencies, said a former editor, "because we wanted to K8 get consumer advertising, liquor, tobacco, automobiles, and the minimum circulation I for that seems to be about 450,000." Despite exceeding that goal, SR still failed...
...pictures always do well in the summer. By fall everyone will wonder, 'What happened to the boom?'' Even in the box-office heat wave, Price must be wondering; his studio's Annie, released May 21, keeps waiting for tomorrow (and tomorrow and tomorrow) to recoup its $50 million investment...
...October war had two consequences for Sadat. First, his limited success allowed him to recoup some of Egypt's national honor which had been squandered by Nasser's unsuccessful forays. Second, because Sadat could not conquer the Sinai through war, he recognized that it made sense to try to regain it through peace. His historic trip to Jerusalem in November 1977 constituted a daring and bold move for peace, for he risked angering the other Arab states in the region. But far from being solely altruistic. Sadat's initiative was carefully calculated. Because he sought peace-for reasons of both...
...sooner Iran can end the war, the sooner it can begin to recoup economically. Virtually all of the big development projects launched by the Shah have been standing half-finished because of shortages of cash, disputes over frozen assets and squabbles over priorities. Iran managed to sell only 1 million bbl. of oil a day last year, half as much as it had projected. Gasoline and staple foods are strictly rationed. Essential items such as meat, rice and sugar are distributed to poor and working-class areas first. Still, Tehran does not give the appearance of extreme hardship. Traffic jams...