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...yardstick by which Hollywood measures success, he couldn't produce: his films were rarely moneyspinners. And now he was in the middle of making a small, relatively low-budget film filled with little-known actors that has absolutely no appeal to ticket-buying, popcorn-munching 18-to-24-year-old males - and it's not even showing in cinemas, instead going straight to TV. Could it possibly be a hit? "I've given up thinking about results," Minghella told TIME recently. "It's just all about the process. As long as I'm working with good people and we enjoy...
...bargain by historic standards. "To give you some basis of comparison in terms of the last times we were at war," he explained, "during the Korean War the percentage of GDP going to defense was about 14%, and during Vietnam it was about 9%." But critics, using a different yardstick, found the Pentagon's request historically high. The New York Times editorial page said Tuesday that next year's defense budget, after adjusting for inflation, will "be the the highest level of military spending since World...
...dramatic terms often used to communicate uncovered plots to a frenzied media notwithstanding, both officials also say the volume of materials stockpiled and explosive power they pack shouldn't be used as a yardstick of how determined or bloodthirsty the attackers were: the murderous ambition behind them is usually the same. If the quantities and blasting capacities of materials collected in the German plot were far larger than the London bombers relied on, that's because the attack modes and venues were different. "Success is paramount for terrorists, so you're not going to risk getting caught by collecting large...
...billion--roughly $5 billion more than General Motors. The IPO netted Singh and several family members, who together hold 87% of DLF, nearly $20 billion--enough to make them one of the richest clans in the world. "Frankly, that is embarrassing to me," Singh says. "That is not the yardstick by which I want to be known...
...Gallup and Elmo Roper in the 1930s and 1940s, and the controversy stirred up by the publication of the Kinsey Reports in 1948 and 1953. Her analysis focuses on how the development of surveys and statistics affected the understanding of social science in the mainstream and gave Americans a yardstick to measure themselves with, different from any tool they had known before. Igo partitions the development of this statistical society into three steps covering a period of at least two decades. Robert and Helen Lynd’s 18-month stay in Muncie, Indiana and their subsequent publication...