Word: slating
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...stay afloat as sagging ticket sales and a general decline in live concert attendance took its toll. But the following year, Lollapalooza retooled itself from a touring entity into a two-day event based in Chicago's Grant Park. More than 60,000 people showed up to see a slate of some 60 bands that included the Pixies, the Killers, Arcade Fire and Widespread Panic. The event grossed a healthy $2.9 million, a major rebound...
...names of administrators at major universities, to names of senior scholars,” says Verba, the Pforzheimer University professor and director of the University Library.The search committee is continuing to collect new names for the list, according to Houghton.But in the coming months, the committee will narrow the slate with successively shorter and shorter “short lists.” Past searches have begun with a first cut exceeding 400 or 500 names. Charles P. Slichter ’45, who chaired the search for Summers’ predecessor, Neil L. Rudenstine, said that his committee...
...It’s a total blank slate for him,” he said...
...Stanford, the Crimson came back to post wins over South Alabama and Sacramento State, advancing to No. 9 in the national poll. That ranking, however, would prove to be the season’s high-water mark. Harvard was cursed by inconsistency in the rest of the non-league slate, losing to No. 15 Notre Dame, TCU and No. 28 William and Mary, defeats that prevented Harvard from earning a top-16 seed in the NCAA tournament. Harvard entered the tournament 18-6, ranked No. 17. The Crimson’s first-round opponent was No. 43 Purdue. The Boilermakers...
...while the Bantams’ dominance was to be expected, the loss to the Tigers put a slight blip on an otherwise clean Ivy slate...