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I vaguely remember the trailers for LONG TIME DEAD and recall it did fairly poorly in cinema tickets and rental sales .
There was a point - as the film was starting - that I felt that maybe I had had low and unjustified expectations of this film over the last couple of years: forget the bad reviews and box-office sales at the time of its release, and instead concentrate on the actual film itself.
(I believe at one time, toward the end of his opera career, he was featured on "Your Hit Parade", singing what were supposedly the five or six most popular songs of the week, judged by record sales.)
Profits from these sales went to the Contras in Nicaragua, thus the Iran-Contra scandal begins.
They will wait for sales to buy, and merchants will find themselves competing ever more fiercely.
Its sales force is training thousands and perhaps millions of merchants to use e-mail marketing and coupons.
Hence, the sales that Prime Minister Putin announced will not increase the demand for pro-market institutions.
Japan’s finance ministry is convinced that it must reduce its large fiscal deficit by hiking the sales tax in April 2017.
So, rather than hire in panic at the first sign of a recovery for fear that they will be unable to do so later and lose sales, firms would rather make sure that the recovery is well established before adding workers.
New car sales have been down for four consecutive months.
While all of the revenue from ticket sales, international broadcasting rights, and sponsorships will go directly to FIFA, Russia will be left with seven new stadiums and five refurbished facilities that it does not need.
At this writing, Yam is widely criticized in Hong Kong for failing to protect small investors against the dishonest sales tactics of a number of banks in their selling of toxic Lehman Brothers derivatives disguised as bonds.
But, while a ban on organ sales may make us feel better, does it really make society better off?
In both examples – congressional tickets and organ sales – Sandel suggests reducing money’s role.
Sales of family holidays increased by 14%.
By contrast, military lobbying now deeply influences foreign and defense policies – witness China’s double-digit increase in defense spending and rising US arms sales in the region.
Anticipating the prospect of such future fire sales (of loans, financial assets, or institutions), it is understandable that even strong banks will restrict their lending to very short maturities, and their investments to extremely liquid securities.
Moreover, once a sufficient number of distressed entities sell their assets, prices will rise simply because there is no longer a potential overhang of future fire sales.
With the growth of private savings, the capital restructuring of SOEs (putting private investors in control) without outright sales of state assets (ie, public redistribution of the capital stock) becomes feasible in both economic and political terms.
Entrepreneurs drive economic growth in ways that go far beyond online sales and e-payment solutions.
&The Chinese demanded a complete severing of all official ties between Taiwan and the US, including arms sales.
Knowing that such a move would provoke an enormous backlash domestically, we looked for a formula for continuing official contacts and arms sales with Taiwan even after we had de-recognized them and terminated the mutual security treaty ratified during the Eisenhower years.
With advice from Eisenhower’s former Attorney General, Herbert Brownell, State Department lawyers drafted the Taiwan Relations Act, a law like no other in American history, which allowed the US government to conduct business with Taiwan, including arms sales, without recognition.
Deng, who had been forced to wear a dunce cap and denounce himself during the insanity of the Cultural Revolution, had achieved the greatest comeback imaginable, and in the fall of 1978, he finally got enough power to cut a deal with the US: China would not “agree” to American arms sales or other activities with Taiwan, but they would proceed with normalization anyway.
Car sales were up nearly 10% in March over the same month in 2015.
It is undoubtedly a relief that the farrago of central and state sales taxes that had previously bedeviled Indian businesses will be replaced by the GST.
In fact, imported cars represent just 15% of domestic car sales, with US imports amounting to just 1%.
In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls.
Many countries also levy hefty sales taxes.
In 2015, robot sales in Asia increased by 19% – the fourth record-breaking year in a row.
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