Word: furnishing
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...Live Nation is expected to furnish Jay-Z, born Shawn Carter, with $5 million in seed money annually for his own label, publishing arm and management company, with significantly more funds available for future acquisitions and expansion. He will also receive a $25 million upfront payment and $10 million per album for a minimum of three albums over the next decade...
Mermaid's Palace (Chicken Socks, $14.95). Make a mermaid's home, furnish it with the punch-out bed and sea creatures, then accessorize your mermaid with shells and pearls. A little too fiddly for kids under about 7, and clean-up's a cow, but pretty engrossing...
...music, [to] try different things and different formats. And he wanted to graze, to try this idea of doing dramatic music. I've always been up for something that was a little different - just keep turning the earth over, so you don't dig yourself a rut and furnish it, you know what I mean? That's how we got together...
...According to a recent article that appeared in The New York Times Magazine, American universities are now in the business of consumer satisfaction, “furnish[ing] their campuses with luxuries.” Supposedly, colleges now care less about students’ intellectual capabilities and potential; it is hard cash, not human capital that counts. Despite the assumption that “money corrupts” and that “things are getting worse,” the worries about higher education are misplaced. The marketplace will not eat the university for breakfast...
...Extremely. Just about anyone with a modicum of determination can successfully mount an attack. The "tools and instructions are readily available at a low cost," says Oliver Friedrichs, a director at the security response unit of Symantec, a U.S. software firm. Internet chat rooms and bulletin boards can furnish would-be saboteurs with instructions on launching their own strike. And defending against these attacks is tricky. Large corporations can invest in clever hardware that detects odd patterns of requests for its websites and routes away the suspicious ones. Smaller firms, not used to handling huge volumes of traffic and lacking...