Word: buzzes
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Crimson's next contests are this weekend at the Buzz Classic at Georgia Tech...
Aside or apart from the electronic buzz, Riding the Bullet is a better than average King chiller. The narrator, Alan Parker, looks back at the phone call he received while a student at the University of Maine, telling him his mother had been hospitalized with a stroke. Since his car is on the fritz, Alan must hitchhike the 120 miles from Orono to Lewiston to see her, and some awfully spooky things happen to him along the way, including getting a lift from a dead man. (Incidentally, this is King's first work since he was struck...
...first two years were spent persuading advertisers to take a flyer. Typically, IndiaWorld managed to grow handily in terms of hits while its profit last year was an imperceptible $58,000. But IndiaWorld earned buzz, and Jain suddenly found himself courted by angel investors, foreign venture capitalists and banks eager to lend. In the end, he decided to get out of the game entirely by selling to Satyam Infoway, one of the largest Internet service providers in India, which doesn't allow foreign competition in the field. "We already have a substantial audience in India," says chief executive R. Ramaraj...
...build audiences with mall appearances. Says Aguilera's manager, Steve Kurtz: "There's no way to fake it in a small room with these major players listening." She also turned down concert gigs with 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys in favor of the all-female Lilith Fair. The buzz grew...
...reaction to Damon, and the fad of self-exalting anti-whiteness that enabled it, is legitimated by policies that discriminate on the basis of race. I do not intend to imply that affirmative action caused the emcee buzz. But laws inevitably induce dispositions in the citizenry. Dispositions create a certain moral milieu, and that moral milieu gives rise to action. If, as a University and as a country, we wish to inculcate dispositions of racial harmony and toleration, then we should start by rejecting today's implicit then we should start by rejecting the today's civil rights ferment...