Word: wente
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...furious as it has made many of you," Bruce Springsteen said after a ticket fiasco in New Jersey in February steered buyers to a secondary market the company owns where tickets were being hawked at up to five times face value. The Boss was so ticked off, he went on to cast his vote against the merger, fearing a music monopoly. (Read a brief history of Ticketmaster...
...didn't help Ticketmaster's merger prospects when it found itself in hot water over the Springsteen ticketing controversy in February. Basically, fans were told that tickets were sold out minutes after they went on sale and were automatically diverted to Ticketmaster's resale company, TicketsNow, where they were forced to pay scalper prices for the tickets. "That was just an outrageous event," said Landau. The Boss himself rallied fans against the Ticketmaster merger. "The one thing that would make the current ticket situation even worse for the fan than it is now would be Ticketmaster and Live Nation coming...
...ostensibly evolved since the 1950s, and even since the 1980s. Advancements like securitized lending seem to have created a system in which interest rates are lower and consumers are able to shoulder more debt than they once were. The percentage of income that goes toward paying interest on debt went from 11% at the beginning of 1980 to 14% at the beginning of 2008, a much smaller jump than the increase in gross amount of borrowing taken on. In other words, there might be reason to believe we can now comfortably carry more debt than...
...says that it still respects the science, but is mindful of the public reaction to the pandemic-alert phases - perhaps even more so after the global media went into spasms after the level rose to 5 on April 29. There are, of course, real dangers to a panicked reaction, beyond the assault of tabloid headlines. When people panic about a new disease, they start flooding the hospitals even when there's nothing wrong with them - a phenomenon carried out by the "worried well." They suck up limited resources from patients who are really sick from the virus - or are sick...
...that in babies whose mothers had not (5.3% vs. 4.9%). What's more, the length of time pregnant women used the drug appeared to not affect the rate of abnormalities in their babies: 4.9% of women who took metoclopramide for up to one week in their first trimester went on to have babies with birth defects, compared with 6.1% of women who used the drug for more than three months...