Word: clipping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a lively period of experimentation when MTV was young, record companies have grown more cautious. Some, like CBS Records, have cut back on the number of videos they produce. Others have put a tighter rein on budgets, which average between $50,000 and $100,000 a clip. For all their artistic aspirations, rock videos are intended mainly as promotional tools; by that measure, a low-budget clip of the band in concert may do the job just as well as a more elaborate "concept" video. Says Video Director Wayne Isham: "What's good these days is what sells product...
Imports also increased in March, but at a much slower clip--up 2.9 percent to $34.7 billion. Still, that was enough to bring imports to a record level, surpassing the $34.3 billion mark set last October...
...expects Airbus to surpass its U.S. rivals anytime in the foreseeable future. But if the European competitor keeps soaring, it is bound to clip more than a few American-made wings. For Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, prestige and big money are on the line, and the jet builders have no intention of giving up their dominance of the skies without a dogfight...
...sheer discursiveness of The Thanatos Syndrome lends itself to all manner of loose, didactic, free-associative diatribe. We're so swept up by the movement of the novel--and this novel does move; it has a wonderful clip--that we find ourselves swallowing pop-philosophical placebos, medicines Percy, a physician, might have prescribed better elsewhere...
...Lashing out at consumers who are "given to pleasure seeking," he called for more unglamorous projects, such as the construction of roads, bridges and energy facilities. Zhao railed against "blindly seeking an excessively high growth rate" lest China's inflation, which is now running at a roughly 6% annual clip, get completely out of hand. His remarks seemed aimed at the policies of the once influential Hu, who last week was re-elected / to the 157-member presidium that heads the People's Congress. Seated directly behind Zhao, Hu clutched a red pencil during the attack, underlining the prepared text...