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Dates: during 1990-1999
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American record companies, always hungry to latch onto trends, and currently ravenous to get chunks of the emerging Spanish-language entertainment market, have been sending scouts and emissaries to Cuba in search of new acts. U.S. law prohibits American companies from hiring Cuban musicians directly, so when European and Japanese labels sign Cuban performers, the American companies sometimes step in as Stateside distributors. In other cases, the musicians are signed by the American companies' foreign subsidiaries--Valdes, for example, is technically signed to EMI Canada, making it possible for EMI's Blue Note label in the U.S. to release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: !Viva La Musica Cubana! | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...plan is somewhat nebulous: I'm hoping to pigeonhole a well-known faculty member or maybe latch onto a tour group. Something like that. Something very Yardish...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, | Title: Harvard--The Movie | 5/20/1998 | See Source »

...Being the only black person, I feel like I donot have a community in my department," he says."And often, faculty tend to latch on to peoplethat remind them of themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Organization Celebrates Black History Month | 2/10/1998 | See Source »

...going to start plotting our strategy like Patton getting ready to cross the Rhine with the Third Army," he announced, discarding his French fries and all but a scrap of bread. It's no surprise that Zone disciples tend to congregate on the coasts. Sears says Middle America will latch on within five years, but others aren't convinced. If Sears can talk Americans who live in the grain belt to forgo bread and cereal, he'll be in the Zone for sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGAINST THE GRAIN | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

AWARDED. To the parents of SERGIO JIMENEZ II, the six-year-old boy who died in 1994 after being thrown from a Dodge Caravan with a defective rear latch: $262.5 million in damages; in Charleston, S.C. Chrysler Corp. plans to appeal the judgment, reportedly the largest rendered against a U.S. automaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 20, 1997 | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

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