Word: friction
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...Dakou has the potential to cause friction between labels and their musicians. In an effort to recover some of the costs of overproduction and marketing mistakes, the majority of labels dispose of surplus or discontinued albums by selling them to middlemen for less than $1 per disc, according to industry executives. In most cases, artists who would ordinarily be paid royalties for album sales get nothing once their work is destined for the bargain bin or scrap heap, says Donald Passman, author of All You Need To Know About the Music Business and attorney to major acts such as Mariah...
...profitability and size of Indian casinos have grown, so has friction between the gaming ventures and surrounding communities. Last summer tensions between the Rumsey Band of Wintun Indians and its neighbors in the rural Northern California Capay Valley erupted into a bitter war of words when the tribe announced plans to double the size of its hillside gaming business. Highway 16, the narrow, serpentine road that winds past the Cache Creek Indian Bingo and Casino on its way into the tiny hamlet of Brooks, is already congested from round-the-clock traffic to the casino. In 2001, traffic to Cache...
...quite. Those who know her use phrases like “gutsy,” “passionate provocateur” and “the most brilliant person I know.” As for herself, Jarcho says that “maintaining a high-friction edge or interface with the world is important...
...programs]. I'm also not confirming it. We have to go by evidence. The Iraqis live in a tense situation. If there is something, they would be gambling not to present it. UNMOVIC relies on U.N. member states for intelligence support, and such cooperation was a big source of friction between UNSCOM and the Iraqis. Will that relationship be handled differently this time around? Yes. It seems clear that UNSCOM lost its legitimacy in the eyes of the world by having too close a relationship with the intelligence agencies. We want intelligence from as many sources as possible...
There are a lot of forces to calculate even without having to worry about Projectile B—the weight of the ball, the weight of the pads the receiver wears, the subtle friction of the field—but you don’t have to factor in the effect of the crowd’s breathing, which has for the moment been suspended in a stadium-wide gasp...