Word: outlet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slumped last year for the first time in a decade. Yet Duffell, the North American boss, says Virgin megastores are entertainment centers that will attract big audiences because they are so profoundly different. Certainly, calling Virgin a record store is understating the place drastically. The Times Square outlet boasts 250 listening posts and four Sony cinemas, inlaid-marble floors and an artist's replica of Michelangelo's Creation on the ceiling of the performance space in the classical section. In another testament to the company's shrewdness, Virgin paid a giveaway $18 per sq. ft. for the space that some...
Some critics have said the best thing about the new movie version of Mission: Impossible is the famous original theme music, a staccato tune for which composer Schifrin won two Grammy awards. TV themes--like those from Mannix and Medical Center--have been just one outlet for Schifrin; his works also include symphonies, operas and jazz compositions. A native of Argentina, he was brought to America in 1960 by Dizzy Gillespie to serve as his pianist and arranger. A Hollywood contract for The Cincinnati Kid followed in 1964, the first of countless film scores. Schifrin continues to adhere...
...small groups would provide an outlet for people with various activist concerns to share their plans, organize projects, compose a newsletter and make a calendar of all events related to social change issues that different groups are working...
Trade is only one side of the U.S.-Japan economic relationship; the other side is finance. The Japanese, seeking an outlet for the billions of dollars they earn from their exports, buy heavily in U.S. Treasury bills. By virtue of the trade deficit, Japan's holdings of U.S. Treasuries are huge. If Japan ever started selling those bonds, U.S. interest rates would rise and the stock market would plummet. As a Japanese official put it, "Japan can pull the trigger on U.S. financial markets." But Japan would hurt itself in the process. The rise in rates and the drop...
...existence of a second club gives an outlet for people who would otherwise feel alienated from the HRC," says Kennedy...