Word: bankrupting
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...bought your album on the Internet after hearing your music on Last.fm or Pandora' or many other of these services," Allcorn said, referring to several webcasters. "I like getting paid and I like royalty payments," Allcorn said. "But if the only radio that plays my music goes bankrupt, they won't be playing my music or paying me royalties...
...live to 101), it has one hit song, "Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee," and lots of impudent attitude, which the revival nicely preserved under John Rando's direction. An expert cast led by Encores! stalwarts Judy Kaye and Walter Bobbie found the fun of bankrupt millionaires and amiably venal cops improbably involved in putting on a Broadway show. It was swell, though I might have preferred Encores! to present Hart and Berlin's next revue, As Thousands Cheer, with a richer score (including "Easter Parade" and "Heat Wave") and a sassier tone. Maybe Encores! skipped it because...
...made that trip to Congress in a campaign to slap a tax on blank video tapes, arguing that a home viewer's ability to tape movies shown on TV would bankrupt the studios. "We are going to bleed and bleed and hemorrhage unless this Congress at least protects one industry ... whose total future depends on its protection from the savagery and the ravages of this machine... I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public," he fulminated, "as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone...
...Moscow over U.S. plans to build missile-defense facilities in Eastern Europe has left U.S. officials wondering whether Russia is living in the last century. Sure, Moscow had reason to fear President Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" program, which he made clear was part of a plan to bankrupt the then-Soviet Union by pouring billions into a missile shield that he vowed would render nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete." But that was so 20th century...
...years you are: Bankrupt and living off the alimony from my divorce from my disturbingly wealthy and successful Harvard alum ex-wife...