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...concept of more music, fewer commercials and no DJs was birthed in Vancouver, B.C., in 2003 and later spread stateside with the formation of the first Jack FM station, in Denver, in April 2004. Last August, Dallas--Fort Worth radio listeners were baptized in the new Jack format during their 8 a.m. commute, when the former occupant of the dial space, Wild 100.3, suddenly went jockeyless and played a selection of movie theme songs and sound bites that said "Jack." The station ranked 20th in its debut, then skyrocketed to No. 1 four months later. It has been there ever...
...Improving the selection of pet and equine supplies bumped the percentage of women customers to 50%. It also helped same-store sales increase 9.9% in 2004. Analyst Eric Marshall of First Dallas Securities says of TSC, "They've really figured out how to provide a lifestyle concept and address certain needs of their customers outside the realm of big-box retailers...
...avant-garde rappers approach abstraction for its own sake. When Mr. Lif and Insight, two Boston rappers still on the fringe of broad recognition, collaborated on the track “Iron Helix” on Lif’s “I, Phantom” concept album, they didn’t trade spars about each other’s virility or compare bling quotients...
...seems unlikely that anything will change a second time around; there are too many competing interests, departments, and priorities for an entirely new concept of a general education or even an HCC to be created from scratch...
...parallels are striking; if one doesn’t like the concept of unilateral action and pre-emptive war, one is simply anti-American. If one isn’t comfortable removing a hundred year old legislative rule and right of the minority so a party can ramrod through some judicial gerrymandering, one is persecuting people of faith. This is both corrosive to democracy in that it aspires to impeded and outright remove the articulation of opposing viewpoints from the process and that this type of reductionism is being used to tear down the freedoms of Americans...