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...Mack the Knife" (which had five versions in the Top 20 from 1956 to 1959, including Bobby Darin's #1) had come to Tin Pan Alley through Ellis Island. This was music they heard, liked and bought. I also doubt that the decade's record producers were trying to broaden the masses' musical palette; they probably figured that, since catchy tunes were hard to find, they might try searching abroad for exploitable material. And since the love-song format developed by U.S. composers had infiltrated every corner of the globe, foreign tunesmiths had already learned America's musical "language." Only...
Watertown spent 12 years rebuilding the Arsenal to broaden its tax base, Airasian said...
...office, which would be led by Scott H. Evertz, the first Bush appointee who is openly gay. Evertz is president of the Wisconsin Log Cabin Republicans, a state branch of a national group which Bush at first repulsed and then met with during the campaign. The administration plans to broaden the office’s mission to include the international spread of the disease, adding a State Department official to its staff, and will also be creating a task force on the international AIDS crisis co-chaired by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and Secretary of Health and Human...
...company also knows that to survive it has to broaden its appeal to platforms beyond desktop computers, especially in the rapidly growing market for handheld devices like mobile phones and personal digital assistants. Because Opera is so compact the firm is touting it as the browser of choice for small Internet-enabled gadgets. Opera is now installed in handheld personal assistants made by Britain's Psion and in Ericsson's cordless Webscreen H610. Since the browser comes as part of the core software on these devices, the company gets paid by the manufacturer, not the user...
...felt for many years, I was so committed to this work and bringing it to this point," Gilligan said. "My realization that [the research] will broaden and expand--it frees me to leave...