Word: shells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...modern megaplex doesn't come cheap. Even though it tends to attract more patrons willing to shell out for those $6 bags of popcorn, each snazzy new location, complete with stadium seating (for unobstructed views) and ear-shattering digital sound, costs in the range of $15 million to $25 million. Moreover, theaters still retain only 50% of ticket revenues, handing the rest over to the studios and relying on concessions for the big bucks. Add to that the fiscal drain of shutting down "older" multiplexes (relics around for a decade), and it's no wonder that the bottom lines...
...Congress Party and leading candidate for Prime Minister. Yet Sonia Gandhi is not even a member of Parliament. Her chief qualification? Choice of spouse. Her late husband was Rajiv Gandhi, slain Prime Minister, himself the most recent example of India's experiment in monarchical rule within a democratic shell. The line is almost unbroken. The first Prime Minister (Nehru) begat a Prime Minister (daughter Indira) who begat another (son Rajiv). His children being too young to reign, India's Congress Party is proposing what in the Middle Ages was called a regency: let the widow rule...
...rate that can only go down. Two lenders, www.servicesavers.com and, in Western states, www.citylinemortgage.com will notify you when prevailing rates drop as little as a quarter to half a point and will automatically refinance your mortgage. Sticking with the same company means you pay no hefty closing costs. You shell out for the new title at City Line and pay zip at Service Savers. To qualify, you need to make timely mortgage payments...
...rhetoric of the kind Ted Kennedy used at the 1980 Democratic Convention, when he said, "The dream shall never die." A Kennedy friend who was there told TIME, "I've seen this family in other sad circumstances, and I'm telling you, this was different. This gang is shell-shocked, blown away. This wasn't, 'Let's have 10 family members get up and say the torch is passed, time for a new generation.' None of that. This was a funeral...
...Chauncy St. resident reported seeing a man in his 20s, about 5'4", running through Cambridge Common and Harvard Square with a silver handgun, which he took out of a backpack. The man reportedly fired one round into the air. A .45 caliber shell casing was recovered at the scene...