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Many people—especially young adults—tune into the radio for music or other purposes and end up getting some news in addition, Patterson said...
...tinny tones of Michael Jackson through shoddy speakers. To Treasure, it sounds like money slipping away. "The soundscape is brutal," he says. "You're not likely to stick around here for a second cup." As head of the Sound Agency, a consultancy in London, Treasure wants companies to tune into the realization that making the wrong noise can hurt business. "Sound changes moods," he explains, "yet most of the sound around us is unplanned...
...came around to it all, and by the time the national anthem started playing I was in an orgasmic pitch of inebriated patriotism. Everyone embracing and swaying to the music, we screamed, howled, shrieked the lyrics; a medley of monkeys that hardly knew the words, or even the tune really. A drunken girl from Arkansas (who had told me seven times she was applying for the Rhodes scholarship before falling unceremoniously to the floor) rushed up to us demanding to know what song this...
...willing to buy the bonds private equity shops need to sell to finance big buyouts; a number of deals have been put off. Credit runs in cycles and this, it seems, might be the top. You might consider it exhibit A that the people most in tune with that cycle, those running firms like Blackstone, are deciding to sell some of their stake to the public. Companies usually go public to raise capital, but Blackstone hardly needs to float shares to find investors. Instead, the move is a way for executives to cash...
...title track and what one hopes is a humorous attempt to reintroduce the bagpipe as a legitimate rock instrument on Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn. These are Top 10 fare compared with the album-stopping Conquest, in which Jack, Meg and a band of mariachis exhume a Corky Robbins tune. It's funny. Once...