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...Oberst have spurned offers from major record labels that could put marketing machines behind their music, and stayed with Saddle Creek, the tiny Omaha label that nurtured them. Will this fraternity hold? Young bands need the support of a local label in the early years but can quickly outgrow it. Danse Macabre is five-year-old Saddle Creek's current cash cow, but the label couldn't have promoted it so well had it not been for the earlier success of Bright Eyes. "Each group has had a period of carrying all of us," says Oberst. "If one person splits...
...industry hasn't seen since Beatlemania: 60 million for four Backstreet albums, 30 million for two Spears albums and 14 million for 'N Sync's No Strings Attached. The question now is whether Jive can keep its numbers up as its customers--and its key artists--start to outgrow their teen years...
...attracted new descriptors for himself, like Lip and Tweeds, it was surely during this period that Bush gave nicknaming a permanent place in his social tool kit. It perfectly complemented his aptitude for remembering names and faces, and it was simply too useful a talent to outgrow...
...will be confidential. We're not going to try to make money off of this. Our ultimate goal is for start-ups to outgrow our services," Rubalcava said. Rubalcava noted that great businesses have been conceived at colleges, including Microsoft, Dell and Yahoo...
...columnists and TV journalists, who in turn hunt only for their flaws in an effort to be clever and thus noticed. There's no trick in being clever and noticed; any deft young journalist can do it, and some--encumbered by fatal cuteness, disappointment or lack of dignity--never outgrow the impulse. Talking like Jackie Robinson, or like Ronald Reagan, our last sublimely corny President, takes more self-confidence and aggressive innocence but--provided that one means what one says--it pays...