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...There's never been a paper that has turned around after the ad share has sunk as low as the Bulletin's." Perhaps. But the Bulletin is going to try. At week's end the paper's management and unions were discussing ways to cut costs. Says Hayden: "If we didn't think it was a sound plan, we'd just close the doors...
...target between the second and third button on his shirt. As you calmly talk and smile, you move your left foot to the side to step across his right-side body length. A light pivot toward him with your right shoulder and the world turns upside down: you have sunk the knife to its hilt into the middle of his chest...
...whirlwind, as Farmer pleads, orates, struts, gesticulates, and throws his body to strike a deal. Farmer does buy the film, but for all his assets, and he returns home to find his enraged wife ready to kill him. This is no Mary Poppins. Furious that her husband has sunk all his assets, (half hers by California law) into a piece of celluloid, she chases him through the house. "You son of a bitch," she cries. Farmer stops, and says, "Variety headline: 'Sally Miles Swears!' Another $10 million at the box office." Edwards excels at manic scenes like these. Farmer...
Last year's top course. Economics S-1500. "Financial Accounting," lost 26 students and sunk to sixth on the list this year. Others in the top ten include S-15. "Introduction to Psychology and Social Relations," Physics S-1. "Principles of Physics," Math S-1F. "Introduction to the Calculus," and Math S-Ar, "Precalculus Mathematics...
Some banks, on the other hand, have decided to go after consumer business and de-emphasize the corporate side of finance. The most innovative of these is Citibank, which has sunk $225 million into new consumer technology. It has installed 468 automated-teller machines that now dot the streets of New York City like so many telephone booths. The new tellers can take deposits, issue cash and transfer funds from a savings account to checking. The machines already handle about 30% of the bank's consumer business at one-half the cost of transactions handled by human tellers. Says...