Word: applauding
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...applaud your choice of the iTunes Music Store. As someone who works on the front line of music retailing (where I have seen firsthand the decline of CD sales) and also behind the scenes at a 1,500-seat performance venue (where musicians who hit the road make and keep more money than they do from record sales), I can honestly say that the music industry has this choice: change or die. Kudos to Steve Jobs and Apple for rewriting the rules and bridging the gap between piracy and the legitimate downloading of music. If that bridge happens...
...applaud your choice of the iTunes Music Store. As someone who works on the front line of music retailing (where I have seen firsthand the decline of CD sales) and also behind the scenes at a 1,500-seat performance venue (where musicians who hit the road make and keep more money than they do from record sales), I can honestly say that the music industry has this choice: change or die. Kudos to Steve Jobs and Apple for rewriting the rules and bridging the gap between piracy and the legitimate downloading of music. If that bridge happens...
...happens, I don't much care for Stephen King's books. Maybe I'm out of touch with my dark side, but I'd swap his oeuvre for J.K. Rowling's in a magic moment, or George R.R. Martin's for that matter. But I applaud the National Book Foundation's choice, and I hope it encourages the small but determined school of writers who are carefully, lovingly grafting the prose craft of the literary heap onto the sinewy, satisfying plots of the trashy one to produce hybrid novels that offer the pleasures of both. Writers like Donna Tartt...
Though the club boasted a historian on its board, it didn’t get a chance to cultivate much history after the Undergraduate Council (UC) decided to turn down its request for funding. “We applaud the efforts of the HWSC, but have trouble justifying this expenditure, so for now our stance is, ‘Sorry, we don’t subsidize burritos,” says Teo P. Nicolais ’06, chair of the UC grant subcommittee...
...minutes the wine will be perfectly chilled. Now, to open the bottle, grab the battery-powered corkscrew from Select Brands ($25; a rechargeable version is available for $50), press a button, and with almost no effort on your part, the cork comes free. A productivity gain that everyone can applaud...