Word: disc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month of mall hopping, a season of spending all the money that has been larded away -- and then some. But wait: this may not be Christmas as usual. America's jingle-jangle shopping spree seems muffled so far this year. As customers browse among the cashmere sweaters and compact-disc players, many are having doubts not only about this month's expenditures but also about their whole philosophy of buy, buy, buy. The October stock-market crash and the likelihood of an economic slowdown next year have rekindled the feeling that Americans must reform their spendthrift ways. "Consumers...
Slapshot, Wrecking Crew, Minor Threat are the main skinhead bands, they say. It would be a rare day for these bands to ever be heard on Kiss 108, or any other commercial Boston radio station including `Rock the Boat Radio' WFNX. "That's more hardcore," says WFNX disc jockey Bowser. "We don't play that kind of stuff. It's too hard for commercial radio...
Perhaps the biggest question is what position Sony will take in the controversy over a new technology called digital audio tape, which can record music with the clarity of a compact disc. CBS Records had been a leading advocate of limiting the technology, contending that it would prompt more home taping and pirating, while Sony has pushed DAT as the next wave in home audio. Now the company will have an interest in both arguments. Experts believe Sony may support a compromise, in which DAT recorders would be permitted in the U.S., but would be equipped with devices designed...
Senior Ted Sevransky, a disc jockey for WJJX, and his sophomore friend Peter Gonzalez, arranged for Gonzalez to call in with racist jokes during Sevransky's talk show. WJJX fired Sevransky, but the university took no disciplinary action against the two last year...
Lindauer had previously worked on three music videos, and a disc jockey recommended that James ask the student for creative assistance. James asked Lindauer, along with Pulier, to provide visualized films to accompany the professionally prepared soundtrack...