Word: jam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...series of local Internet guides to the arts, Seattle Sidewalk, with a Ticketmaster link that allowed customers to buy event tickets via computer, bypassing Ticketmaster's home page. Sales soared, but Ticketmaster was unappreciative. Microsoft ought to add an irony link; it was the Seattle band Pearl Jam that accused Ticketmaster of monopolizing rock-concert ticket sales. And it wasn't too long ago that Microsoft wiggled out of the antitrust docket at the Justice Department. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates knows whom to call to straighten this out. Ticketmaster is controlled by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft...
Harvard tied the game in its half of the fourth, and the score remained knotted until the sixth. After freshman Mike Giampaolo got the Crimson out of a jam in the top of the inning, Harvard struck in the bottom of the frame...
...talented teen singer Aaliyah and even the admirably artsy neo-soul stylings of Erykah Badu all have roots in Blige's success. But Blige was the original round-the-way diva; her hard, up-from-the-projects exterior made her raw vocals that much more affecting. Says producer Jimmy Jam, who worked with Blige on World: "People can copy her, but no one can match her emotion...
...this. The seminal Seattle rockers SOUNDGARDEN, one of the first bands to break out of the Northwest, have split up. The terse announcement from their record company gave no reason, not even the usual pat of "creative differences." While never as high-profile as Nirvana or Pearl Jam, the Grammy-winning band sold more than 20 million records. Down on the Upside, their last album, reached No. 2 on the charts. The band, which had recently finished touring, hadn't taken a summer off from one another since 1988. "I heard they were having heavy arguments and stuff at their...
...confident that everyone involved knew what was really going on. Although white America insists that Tiger be a "black golfer" (i.e. one who has no business telling rude jokes about African Americans), it insists equally passionately that he not be "threatening" or "racial." In short, Tiger is in a jam...