Word: record
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Sophomore Natalie Grant, the school-record holder in weight throw, finished fourth in the hammer with a 45.57-meter toss...
...good news, experts say, is that the bias is beginning to fade. An increasing number of start-ups that may have previously shunned the "gray hairs" (anybody over 35 in Silicon Valley parlance) have learned that bringing in a high-level executive with a 15- or 20-year track record can be essential to getting the job done...
...proposal last week to reform campaign financing--calling for an end to "soft money" contributions and the creation of a $7.1 billion endowment--he admitted that he is an "imperfect messenger for this cause." In his new modesty offensive, Gore was alluding to such well-known blemishes on his record as the 1996 fund raiser he held at a Buddhist temple. But Gore's imperfections may also extend to the more traditional realm of political patronage, particularly through his influence with a powerful institution back home: the Tennessee Valley Authority...
...result is a rare and surprising thing--a follow-up record that may please everyone. Return of Saturn has lyrics that are accessibly vague, music that pushes the listener--though not too much--and singles primed to blare from a car stereo. It's not high art, but it's much more substantial than, say, "Hit me, baby, one more time." On the standout Simple Kind of Life, Stefani mulls the crossroads of womanhood: "I always thought I'd be a mom/Sometimes I wish for a mistake/The longer that I wait the more selfish that I get." She does bittersweet...
Championship vinyl--a Chicago record store specializing in antique discs--provides Rob Gordon (John Cusack) with a rich life but no better than a marginal living. Mostly it exists to give him a place to argue with his employees (a hilariously passive Todd Louiso and a manically aggressive Jack Black) about musical arcana...