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Reality bit, and deep. In 2001 EMI brought in new top management, including chairman of EMI Recorded Music Alain Levy, to help navigate the brave new digital world. The administration promptly laid off 1,800 employees (20% of EMI's staff), which helped absorb the impact when sales fell 10% in 2002--and created an executive position, global head of antipiracy. It also brought in executive vice president John Rose, an e-commerce ace from consulting firm McKinsey. "The fundamental premise of hiring someone like me," says Rose, "is that this industry needs to be re-engineered." Since last summer...
...when they are deflected and land in reverse—it spells ‘raw pots,’” she says. “[The war] will obviously have an effect on future work of artists. In many cases, this takes a long time to absorb...
...suit is made of a water-repellent nyloncotton shell laminated to layers of carbon spheres that absorb chemical and biological agents and are bonded to a knit back...
...find ourselves in. As I sit here writing this column, I’m anxiously awaiting the start to the Astros season in just a few minutes and the Cy Young soon to follow for Roy Oswalt this year. But I do believe that as much as we absorb ourselves in athletes and games, we should be aware of the world beyond our front door, our team’s ballpark and our country...
Most of the protesters have children at the Peabody School, which is slated to move into the closing Fitzgerald School’s building and absorb that school’s students this fall...