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...aura around him that made everyone excel." But the industry didn't stop for even a second of silence. The work had to go on. Martin took the musical reins, while studio co-founder Tom Talomaa continued to oversee the business side. They kept Cheiron's modus operandi - plenty of video-game breaks, practical jokes and the like - that PoP had instituted. And the music actually got bigger, with Martin's hits for Backstreet, Britney, Celine Dion and 'N Sync as well as huge songs from other teams, including Kristian Lun-din and Jake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Top of the Pops | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...That's not to say they haven't shown themselves to be quite capable of an act of this type, such as when they seized scores of hostages at a Russian hospital in June 1995. So even the fact that it's not quite in line with their recent modus operandi, we couldn't rule out the possibility that this is the work of the Chechen resistance groups. It's very difficult to determine a modus operandi, but if there is one it's that these events occur when there's a standoff in Chechnya. But it may well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hijacking Highlights Ongoing Chechnya Conflict | 3/15/2001 | See Source »

...suspect involved in that robbery fits the description of the suspect in the Oxford St. robbery and has a similar modus operandi...

Author: By Joseph P. Flood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Professor Robbed | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...modus operandi of the attacks have varied--daylight, early evening, nighttime--as have the descriptions of the suspects--white, black, single, pack, old, young. Some crimes have been committed on foot, others on bicycle and even others in vehicles...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Crime Surge Connected to Cambridge Increase | 11/29/2000 | See Source »

Rather than accepting the argument that her headwear posed a threat to secularism, Kavakci said she views secularism as a tool for oppression, used by a government for which "violation of human rights is its modus operendi...

Author: By Tzu-huan Lo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Turkish Politician Speaks at IOP | 11/9/2000 | See Source »

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