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...production and use. Merrill-Oldham asserts that every technician is in constant consultation with curators to ensure the history of these rare objects –as long as no further deterioration is caused–is preserved. “We’ve had posters that were torn down from buildings during the Boxer Rebellion,” Merrill-Oldham says. “The backs of these things are plaster. Plaster is an alkaline so it’s not going to deteriorate the object. You’re not going to take it away...
...year, when it was clear that London-based AIG FP was in trouble but not yet apparent that its parent company wouldn't survive without $170 billion (and counting) in taxpayer aid. Without that aid, AIG would have gone bankrupt in September and the bonus promises would have been torn up. AIG was not allowed to go bankrupt because Lehman Brothers had just failed and the people at the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve worried (with reason) that another failure - in particular, the failure of a firm that wrote default insurance for banks around the world - might wipe...
...Just as Hollywood's largest studios have been debating the "DVD window" for years - torn between maximizing the profitability of a movie's DVD release and cannibalizing its theatrical campaign - so have independent filmmakers been debating how to cope with the window between the film festival and the art house, where attendance has been sagging. Some distributors have encouraged directors to forgo the theater, advocating direct-to-DVD strategies or premieres on such premium cable networks as HBO. But many filmmakers say the disadvantage of those distribution plans is that they fail to generate the press and word of mouth...
...wooden but plucky CEO of GM, Rick Wagoner, told the press that if his company is allowed to go into Chapter 11, it will end up being a simple liquidation. GM will be torn into pieces and sold off as scrap. He made one good point to support his point of view. If a bankruptcy of the No. 1 U.S. car company drags on for several months, potential auto buyers will purchase vehicles from competitors that they view as being "safe". No one wants to buy a car that won't be serviced. Wagoner has made this point before...
...visiting Japan, I've learned not to be surprised by the juxtaposition of modernity and tradition, by an embrace of high-technology that coexists with a reverence for an older nation of cherry blossoms, hot springs and snow on maple trees. In an enigmatic way, this duality has not torn Japanese society apart but given it a remarkable stability...