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...journalism colleagues (no, we aren't immune to this kind of folly) asking a high financial official whether he could foresee price increases and interest rates ever falling below 10%-and expressing shocked disbelief when the official answered yes. I wonder if my colleague remembered that exchange when CD rates dropped below 3% a bit more than a year...
...some 85% of U.S. homes with television sets also have VCRs, generating nearly $10 billion in annual videotape rentals in a market that did not exist 20 years ago. The compact disc rejuvenated the recorded-music industry, winning new listeners for both Mozart and Jimi Hendrix, just as the CD-ROM promises to turn home computers into powerful outlets for entertainment...
...trio TLC. The letters stand for the members' nicknames--Tionne (``T-Boz'') Watkins, Lisa (``Left Eye'') Lopes and Rozonda (``Chilli'') Thomas--but there are a lot of other things the name could refer to. Tender Loving Care, of course, is one possibility, and the group's enormously charming new CD, CrazySexyCool, is full of songs about women in search of love, caring and tenderness. Given the well-publicized travails of the group, however--Lopes is facing charges that she burned down her boyfriend's house, and Thomas is searching for her biological father--TLC could also be the initials...
...changed. We moved from the record to the CD-ROM age and you can tell," Gabai says. "It was a hippie crowd back then and now the crowd is still funky, but more sophisticated...
...Many have lamented the loss of the LP, and with it comparatively vast acreage for album-cover art. True, no CD packaging on the market today can match the eye-dazzling splendor of original pressings of Frampton Comes Alive. But CDs are becoming miniworks of art, as our favorite recent examples attest...