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...enough to secure the record companies' futures, though. More pressing is the need to sharpen strategies for the digital market. Record companies were slow to turn on to digital; Doug Morris, the boss of Universal Music, once slammed MP3 players as little more than "repositories for stolen music." But last year those companies saw their revenues from digital sales hit an estimated $2.9 billion, up almost eightfold since 2004. However, that's not exactly the fortissimo it may appear to be. The 38% annual growth in digital sales last year was less than half the increase seen in 2006. Music...
...city had been so thoroughly looted after the invasion that the doorknobs had been stolen off the doors of their central base...
...Bublak says, noting that people used to just steal property from the outside. Now, in addition to vandalizing the property, stripping its bones and using the yard as a dumping ground, thieves have zeroed in on the homes' utilities. "Forty percent of foreclosed homes in Modesto get their power stolen," says the Modesto Irrigation District's Louis Maceira,who can often be found locking or removing meters from these homes...
...Although exact counts for this year’s project have yet to be released, DeWolf estimated that at least 100 pieces of dishware were recovered, significantly more than last year’s total. Last year, the Cup was the target of inter-House thievery when it was stolen from Cabot House in late April. The robbery resulted in a flurry of accusations and threats, primarily aimed at Mather, over Cabot’s e-mail list. The House that wins the Green Cup will receive over a thousand dollars this year. Students can also win prizes...
...attended Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In the same year that True was charged, the MFA was accused of possessing looted artifacts through dealings with Hecht, whom Italian investigators suspected of selling or giving the museum more than 1,000 artifacts, all possibly stolen...