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...large extent, commercial conservatism has put a crimp in rock's evolution. It's a matter of survival for "AOR" radio -- stations that play album-oriented rock -- to coddle their audience (usually in the 25-to-44 age group) with a steady dose of oldies. "We find that classic rock is what most people want to hear," says Mark Chernoff, program director at New York City's K-ROCK. "They like the familiarity." K-ROCK and similar stations may play a new Eric Clapton record relentlessly ("We will beat it to death," Chernoff says), but they go easy on breaking...
...well the canola refrain will continue to play is anyone's guess. For one thing, the relative scarcity of domestic supplies could crimp future sales. To confuse matters more, some health researchers are beginning to question whether a reduction of cholesterol is necessarily good for everyone. Just this August, the British Medical Journal reported that low levels of cholesterol may be associated with an increased risk of suicide...
With American television stations, libraries, food products and schools, soldiers hardly know that they are away from home. They are like the "Accidental Tourist" in Anne Tyler's novel who tries his hardest not to ever let a foreign country put a crimp in his American way of life...
Even at a University with a $5 billion endowment, that's quite a crimp in the budget...
Some lawmakers have made vacation plans for the week between Christmas and New Year's Day and do not plan to cancel them, a move that could crimp efforts to bring a tax increase bill to the floor by the year...