Word: columbia
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...sclerotic traffic, which now costs the city $13 billion a year in lost economic productivity and dirties New York's air, which is more polluted than that of any other city in the country besides Los Angeles. "It's an essential idea," says Steven Cohen, executive director of Columbia University's Earth Institute. (See the top 10 green ideas...
...signed a record deal with Columbia Records, releasing his debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. with a group of New Jersey-based musicians and friends who would later become The E-Street Band (named after a street in Belmar, New Jersey). The album, while critically acclaimed, sold only 25,000 copies in its first year; his second album The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle gained more traction and sold more than 150,000 copies by 1974. Springsteen's breakout didn't occur until his ambitious third album, 1975's Born to Run. (See pictures of Bruce...
...Springsteen's subsequent albums earned him greater and greater critical and popular acclaim, culminating in 1984's Born in the U.S.A., one of the best -selling albums of all time. With with over 15 million copies sold in the U.S. alone, the album remains the most successful in Columbia Records' history; 7 of its tracks became Top 10 singles. Released at the height of Ronald Reagan's 1984 reelection campaign, the song "Born in the USA" itself was widely seen as a jingoistic anthem, despite lyrics expressing anger and frustration over the treatment of Vietnam veterans...
...delegates departed Harvard for Brown University yesterday and are scheduled to end their trip this week with visits to Yale and Columbia University...
...next contest was Brown’s Ivy League debut, a matchup with host Columbia. She admitted to feeling some pressure...