Word: recordability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Ironically, one conspicuous polluter is the recording industry. In the U.S., compact discs are packaged in bulky 12-in. "longboxes," which consumers usually throw away. Angered by the waste, such musical activists as R.E.M. and Crosby, Stills & Nash have formed a coalition called Ban the Box to urge record companies to eliminate the excess cardboard...
...have bullishly poured billions of dollars into the stock market during the past month. Last week the Dow Jones average broke the 2900 barrier for the first time, climbing 80 points and closing at 2900.97. All told, the Dow has risen 244 points since May 1 and has set record highs eleven times. The euphoria has spread far beyond the blue-chip Dow. The more broadly based Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 2.4% last week, to close at a record...
...tight budget, but it has a sterling record. With nearly $12 million in loan guarantees outstanding, WWB has suffered only $35,000 in losses. "We're not a charity organization. We require that the individuals who come to us take on some of the financial risk themselves," says Michaela Walsh, a former partner in a Wall Street investment-banking firm who founded WWB with six other businesswomen from around the the world...
While still in school, MacCready managed to win three U.S. National Soaring Championships, and rode the updrafts east of the Sierra Nevada range to a then record 29,500-ft. altitude. After graduation, he went on to become the first American to win the International Soaring Championship, at St. Yan, France in 1956. While soaring, and daydreaming, he also conceived the MacCready speed ring, a simple indicator now universally used by glider pilots to determine the optimum speed they should use in flying between thermals, or updrafts...
...considered a serious instrument. So he studied privately, first with Erik Darling, onetime member of the Weavers folk quartet, and eventually with Trischka, an urban bluegrass whiz. Even then, Fleck was an eclectic, trying to absorb everything from salsa to jazz. Especially jazz. "I bought a Charlie Parker record, and I thought, "Wow! This is incredible." I tried to learn Parker's licks on the banjo, but I couldn't find the notes." One day, in a high school jazz-appreciation class, the teacher played pianist Chick Corea's Spain -- for Bela, another revelation. "It was just so immediate...