Word: redo
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...After the songs are written, demos made and potential tracks picked, it's time to record, an intense process that Martin says is "24-7." Sometimes, he'll redo sections of a song repeatedly, until he gets what he's listening for. "He's hard on you with the vocals," Spears reports. "Then when you hear it, you're like, 'Oh, damn! I'm so glad. Why didn't I do that before? It sounds so good...
...marking ballots at the same time, so you get rid of the waiting lines," says Ed Packard, election administrator in Alabama, where all but three of the state's 67 counties use the method. "And you can program the machines to kick overmarked ballots back to the voter to redo." The scanners also claim an optimal accuracy rate of 99%, but the scanning machines are costly...
...boarded, and Gatsby is dead again. He is dead every autumn, and I take a melancholy consolation speaking of him to my college students after everything he yearned for is irretrievably gone. That, of course, is the heartbreak of the novel--the yearning to be young forever and to redo, remake. And the yearning does not get more manageable simply because one can do nothing about...
...team official Valeri Dianov: "She was emotionally depressed after that. We expected her to be Olympic champion. This is the worst performance the Russian team has ever had at the Olympics." Knowing she'd need an impossibly high score to take even a bronze medal, Svetlana chose not to redo her vault and leave the question of who was the best female gymnast in the world open to discussion. Earlier in the week, before disaster struck, she had said, "losing isn't the worst thing that can happen to you." Now she had more reason to take that advice...
...theatricals' business practices were lacking. The club and theatricals were still intertwined as one organization, but club types did not always make the best drama decisions and the state of theatrical finances was grim until two enterprising members overhauled the organization's management. "They said we had to redo the business plan, how we sold tickets--specialized in group sales and advanced sales. And they convinced their parents to kick in $5,000 or $10,000. With this financial boost, the theatricals went back in the black. The 1970s also saw a resurgence of interest in the club. "The dining...