Word: record
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This summer, I'm following a dream, rubbing elbows with musicians who inspire me and learning more about the music industry than I ever knew. I'm working for a record company, Aware Records, here in Chicago. Though I could do many of the tasks I'm doing it in an environment that is making me very happy. I'm not working 100-hour weeks, I'm not wearing an uncomfortable suit, and I'm not working for people I detest. I could, in fact, work that way if I so needed, but I don't think I--or anyone...
...Every afternoon he has two hours of track practice. Barry has followed the same routine five days a week since he was seven--all in hopes of winning a college scholarship and eventually a shot at the Olympics. It's not a farfetched dream: already Barry holds the U.S. record for his age in the long jump and for 55-meter hurdles...
...frenzied reaction to his first tour with the E Street Band in more than a decade proves that the powerful bond Springsteen has forged with his fans during the past quarter-century has only intensified. He has no record in the Top 30, and his biggest hit, Born in the U.S.A., is approaching its 15th birthday. Yet when tickets went on sale for the 15 shows that begin next week at New Jersey's Continental Arena, fans snapped up the 300,000 seats in just 13 hours...
...data, too many reports, too many experts looking for "tendencies" as if they were football coaches and the Federal Reserve an NFL team. For weeks, it seems, the nation was on "Fed watch," as commentator after commentator opined on the Fed's desire to cool things down. (For the record, this talking head told you to take a vacation from the market this week so you would not have to think about Greenspan...
...jury giveth and the judge taketh away. That oft-repeated scenario is what many legal and business analysts believe will happen to last week?s record-busting $4.9 billion jury verdict awarded against General Motors in Los Angeles. After a 10-week trial, a 12-member panel ordered the company to pay the sum ? $107 million in compensatory damages and $4.8 billion in punitive damages ? to six people who were severely burned when the fuel tank in their Chevrolet Malibu exploded during a rear-end collision. The plaintiffs claimed the car should have been designed with a fuel tank further...