Word: concepting
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Lynda Clemmons, vice president at Enron, a Houston energy concern that buys and sells weather derivatives, says the concept emerged when companies' needs weren't being met by traditional insurance. "Insurance companies were saying, 'We can help you if a hurricane blows down your factory but not if it's 6[degrees] warmer this winter and your revenue drops,'" Clemmons says. The deregulation of the energy industry in 1995 meant that a new category of highly weather-sensitive businesses was suddenly forced to make a profit and became very interested in a product that could protect it from weather risks...
...Accordingly, the album is a loose collection of tracks that seem to be the musical equivalent of an artist's sketchbook--it contains an array of self-contained and varying ideas--rather than a fully flushed-out concept album. Hutchence was obviously allowed significant creative license to experiment with different textures, because there are scarcely two tracks that sound similar, which is hardly a drawback. Heavily distorted guitars are on assault on the opening track "Let Me Show You," but are immediately contrasted with ethereal and richly textured multi-layered sonics on the ballad "Possibilities." Radio ready hits jostle...
David Twohy: Interscope told me they had a script with an interesting concept-a ship crash lands on a planet, there doesn't appear to be any life at first, but then we find that the life is nocturnal. Actually, in the early drafts, we had a female convict. I was tired of movies like Lost in Space and Starship Troopers; they're basically just white guys in space. I like the Muslim contingent in the movie. They're devout Muslims, and they're not terrorists...
...There isn't a plan per se," said Wrinn. "It's a concept to try to expand the circle that had been currently operative in order to include other large industries that would be affected far more than Harvard would...
Under the concept proposed by Harvard, private investors will provide $175 million, and real estate sales will account for the rest of the money...