Word: records
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...Greatest Hits record is kind of like a Cliffs Notes version of the Foo Fighters catalog. These are the songs that most people know. But [Foo Fighters have] 65 other tracks. Some of those are probably the ones that I love the most, like "Aurora" off the third album. Every one of these songs lyrically represents something personal...
ROLF HEUER, director general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, on refraining from celebrating after the Large Hadron Collider broke the record for proton acceleration on Nov. 30, sending the particles hurtling at an energy of 1.18 trillion electron volts...
...What I've said is, There is no excuse for my voting record," Whitman repeated over and over, like a highly coached robot. "Leaders need to stand up and acknowledge their mistakes...
Whitman later said she was "focused on raising a family" as well as "on my husband's career" by way of explanation of her spotty record, even as it trickled out that her voting history was slightly better than initially depicted. Not surprisingly, the "working mother" excuse sent feminists into a tizzy and created doubts for some of Whitman's base of Republican women. "I raised a family and ran a business and still managed to vote," sniffed Elaine Henderson, who went to hear Whitman speak in Rancho Mirage. "I'm just not happy with her explanation. I'd like...
...certain number of low-skilled workers who would otherwise likely be fired as a result of the economic downturn. Historically, similar plans to keep workers employed during recessions have worked. The 1977 New Jobs Tax Credit was immediately followed by an 11.2 percent rise in employment—a record for the United States at the time. And there’s no reason to believe that it won’t work again. John Bishop, an economics professor at Cornell University, predicts that Obama’s proposal will have great success and increase employment by 2.8 million...