Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sell their music, bands had to sign with a recording label with the right contacts to get their songs out to DJs and industry heads for local and national promotion. Labels who caught up-and-comers could sign them to contracts which bound them to turn over a huge percentage of their profits and subsequently regulate all aspects of album production, touring...
...wife pointed out that because we don't have any legacy 8-mm tapes, the charms of the Digital8 may be lost on us. But the benefits of digital video cameras are still compelling. You can create a huge variety of special effects and generally enjoy far more control over how images look. Also, digital tapes are much easier to edit on a PC; an analog tape first must be converted to digital, which is cumbersome. Perhaps the best news is this: for the next year, Sony is expected to have the only Digital8s on the market. That may well...
...probably the ace that ensured Homo sapiens' domination of the planet. (Hinduism recognizes this connection as one of the prime goals in life.) Familyists should welcome it as a great elixir for the daily tussle and tumble inevitable in marital life. This synergy between reproduction and pleasure explains the huge social benefit a family offers. SHARADCHANDRA D. JOG Bombay
...pilot will be fooled by the acquittal of the captain of the Prowler aircraft that caused the Italian cable-car tragedy [JUSTICE, March 15]. Some of us know the huge adrenaline rush of low flying. It is addictive, and the faster and lower the better. Sensations are heightened in valleys, with mountainsides just off the wing tips. It is a visual flying process and certainly no place for inept pilots. This is no place for ad hoc or reckless flying. There can be no excuses: there is no escape from this ultimate responsibility. There is no air-traffic controller...
BANKING ON PRIVACY Don't worry if a bank teller asks how your day is going--odds are he's not a government spy. After a huge public outcry over privacy, banking regulators last week dropped proposed "know your customer," anti-money-laundering rules that would have kept a closer eye on every customer transaction. But be aware that under the existing rules, if you deposit or withdraw more than $10,000 in cash, you'll still be reported to the feds...