Word: struck
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...strategy is live performances. Despite the stagnation of record sales, the concert industry is booming. Last year revenues were up 8% to $3.9 billion, and Live Nation is in perfect position to expand its market share. Eight years ago, Live Nation, then a part of Clear Channel Communications, struck a deal with Ticketmaster that gave Ticketmaster exclusive rights to sell most of Live Nation's 30,000 nationwide events. That deal, which accounted for nearly $200 million in revenue in 2007, expires in 2008, and Live Nation's own ticketing system, already the third-largest in the United States...
...Mostly they escape through song, and it?s wondrous to see and hear the over-familiar melodies and lyrics in context again. ?Some Enchanted Evening?, which always struck me as the stodgiest of the big R&H love ballads, becomes an affecting, shape-shifting reflection of the show?s emotional movement, from the joy of love-at-first-sight to the rueful foreshadowing of love lost. Even the seemingly simple lyrics of ?A Wonderful Guy? glide from ironic detachment to full-throated romanticism with deceptive wit and charm...
...HUPD officer observed Wu yelling and throwing a snowball at another Harvard student. He had pushed the student earlier, according to an eyewitness. When officers approached Wu for questioning, he refused to produce identification and attempted to walk away. When an officer tried to stop him from leaving, Wu struck his arm. Wu was then informed that he was being placed under arrest. As he was being escorted to the police vehicle, he kicked an officer, causing a laceration in his leg. Wu then kicked through a window of the police cruiser. At the police station, he kicked...
Zailskas, with his brim down to his eyes like Jonathan Papelbon, stayed ahead in counts and mixed his fastball and changeup effortlessly. He retired the first eight batters of the game and struck out three in the first three innings. Though SDSU’s Nick Romero took one deep in the fourth, Zailskas recovered quickly. In the sixth, the starter still looked unstoppable as he retired the first two batters of the inning...
...suburb of Weymouth, where much of the community still saw Harvard as a place that was hostile to anyone who wasn’t wealthy.“It was seen as alien, really not for us,” he said.But when he visited, Fitzsimmons said he was struck by the “quality and the diversity of the student body.” He found that the stereotypes about rich undergraduates were largely untrue. Today, a note from Fitzsimmons will reach 27,000 high school seniors notifying them of Harvard’s admissions decision. The letter...