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...Indeed, over the past decade home equity loans have helped finance a lot of big-ticket holiday purchases. And with that resource increasingly hard to tap, middle and lower-income shoppers probably will not spend as much on discretionary purchases. Forty-four percent of consumers polled in WSL Strategic Retail's How America Shops survey said they expect to spend less this holiday season. "This year customers won't trade up," says Cohen. "If I am a Target shopper I will stay there. Last year I was a Wal-mart shopper going to Bloomingdales because I felt good...
...ubiquitous. Producers of just about any nonpornographic movie can get an advance from the government against box-office receipts (most loans are never fully repaid). Proceeds from an 11% tax on cinema tickets are plowed back into subsidies. Canal Plus, the country's leading pay-TV channel, must spend 20% of its revenues buying rights to French movies. By law, 40% of shows on TV and music on radio must be French. Separate quotas govern prime-time hours to ensure that French programming is not relegated to the middle of the night. The government provides special tax breaks for freelance...
USAGE Besides announcing the physical security steps, Brown also proposed that the government work closely with local imams, spend about $800 million to "tackle radicalization and promote understanding overseas" and advise hospital, hotel and school staffers on how to be more vigilant...
...time lag between Harvard’s outdated Houses and Yale’s renovated Colleges is a marked one. In 1997, Yale committed to renovating all 12 Colleges and only three remain unfinished. Last May, the Committee on House Life (CHL) told The Crimson it would spend the summer choosing a renovation plan for the River Houses. The report assessing the various construction possibilities will be complete by the end of the month, according to an e-mail from Dean Suzy M. Nelson. But the CHL has no timetable for when their “vision?...
...nations. "I hope you will join us in asking all of the candidates to make this pledge and keep the fight against malaria on the national agenda," Gates wrote in an October 19 blog post. The Gates Foundation, along with the Broad Foundation, had also previously announced plans to spend $60 million on "Ed in '08," a project designed to make improving education a top priority of the 2008 presidential race...