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...dressed-up sweatshop; proponents call it good business. "It gives us the flexibility to move people where they're needed," says John Stropki, executive vice president. Indeed, during the recession of the early 1980s, when sales tanked 50%, the company turned 30 factory workers into salesmen to drum up business...
...released its album Moon Safari early in 1998, the world discovered the awesome potential French music could have once it freed itself from its inferiority complex. While precursor Daft Punk remained rooted in the strobe-lit euphoria of dance culture, Air's eclecticism hitched up '60s film soundtracks with drum machines and spacey synthesizers to create a crisp pop sound you could listen to outside the nightclub...
...that resurfaced in 1991 was dramatically different from what audiences were used to. Their sound was infused with synthesizers and techno-based drum beats, while their tours were large-scale spectacles that expanded to the $250,000-per-day multimedia extravaganza of the 1997 PopMart tour, complete with a lemon-shaped spaceship that carried the band on stage. U2 was trying to create the next generation of music and performance by utilizing the technology...
...surreal image of this one lone man on a snowy night, beating his drum, playing his harmonica and holding a ‘Stop the Bombing’ sign. There was no mass protest,” he says...
...protests of the Administration, say critics, ring as hollow as an empty oil drum. It consulted heavily with energy-industry lobbyists but spent little time talking to environmentalists. The Administration's last-minute rush to portray its plan as "balanced" between promoting increased domestic production and encouraging conservation--a portrayal Bush reiterated in his radio address Saturday--may come across as a public relations gesture. Even some insiders concede that conservation measures were tacked on to the plan recently in response to what one calls "arsenic and CO2," referring to the beating Bush took for his stand on several environmental...