Word: skies
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...club has booked several lecturers, including Boston University Professor Michael Martin, who is known for his books on atheism such as The Big Domino in the Sky...
...magazine giant. Then he bought 37% of Yahoo, the U.S. Internet search-engine company. In June he and another corporate conqueror, News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch, acquired a 21% interest in TV Asahi, which will be the entrepreneurial duo's base for a 150-station satellite network called Japan Sky Broadcast. And in September, Son's Tokyo-based Softbank paid $1.5 billion for 80% of California-based Kingston Technology, the world's largest maker of computer-memory products. Son's ultimate goal: nothing less than Softbank's dominance of the Internet world...
...Murdoch name, dutifully turned down the request. "'Wow, no!' I told her," Son recalls. "'This is one invitation we have to accept.'" Four weeks and just two meetings later, Son had convinced Murdoch that Softbank was the partner he needed in the $164 million deal to launch Japan Sky Broadcast...
EYES IN THE SKY Some governments have been spying from the heavens for decades, but later this year the first commercial imaging satellites are scheduled to lift off. Their high-resolution photos are expected to be a boon for developers and environmentalists--as well as foreign governments and well-heeled voyeurs...
Their perfect accord in the largo made for the greatest single movement of the evening. This sky-scrapingly beautiful duet is one of Bach's greatest achievements, presaging the slow movements of Mozart violin concertos and Beethoven piano concertos. Standing there, gazing at each other, Josefowicz and Laredo looked like intense conversation partners who just happened to be holding violins: Sensitive to the largo's lullaby cadences, Laredo nudged the ensemble to produce a tender, if totally subdued, accompaniment...