Word: achtung
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...Achtung Boston...
...lost cause" and "Seen the end of the day come too late/Seen the love you had turning into hate/Had to act like I didn't even care/But I did so I got stranded standing there." As failed-relationship albums go, it's nearly as good as U2's Achtung Baby, although Sea Change's uniformity of pace and tone causes it to flag a bit near the end. ("We recorded a song about a border-patrol cop that sort of sounds like a Delta blues video game," says Beck. "But, you know, it didn't make a lot of sense...
...lost about 25,000 staff last year. INDICATORS Breaking Windows' Hold Dell Computer, Oracle, and Red Hat are teaming up to sell computers running Linux, the free "open source" operating system. The announcement came just days after IBM struck a deal to provide Linux machines to the German government. Achtung, Windows. Bringing It Back Home China's Finance Minister says foreign companies enjoying a 15% tax rate will pay the full domestic rate of 33% from next year. The country is trying to fill budget gaps left by cuts in import tariffs and a 23.9% rise in first-quarter state...
...people, should not receive encouragement in that field. Second, it's unclear what is new or unusual about DJs, ambient electronic sounds, or odd time signatures. The first two items on that list were fresh in the early '90s, when U2 mixed rock with techno sounds on their "Achtung Baby" album, and The Beastie Boys interspersed DJ scratches and rapping with heavy guitars on their hit song "Sabotage." By the turn of the century, both tricks were de rigeur among hard rock bands (to say nothing of the industrial bands that had been mixing synthesizers and samples with metal riffs...
...else" meant, first, an official warning from the E.U. Commission: "Achtung, you are getting too close to the target. Mend your ways - now!" Second, it meant heavy financial penalties if the limit was breached. Thus, Teutonic discipline would reign from Cork to Calabria, Portugal to the Polish border. Back then, nobody imagined that Germany would ever act as fox in charge of the chicken coop. But this is precisely what is happening...