Word: slating
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Lawyers for online firms, especially those seeking to reassure potential investors before an IPO, cite such cases as critical precedents. Not all are convinced: one of Wall Street's leading law firms, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, recently warned investment-banking clients to steer clear of online-gaming companies because of concerns about their legality in the U.S. Should the DOJ decide to crack down, the gaming firms, at least, have an exit. PartyGaming's prospectus takes pains to point out that the company has no tangible assets or physical presence in the U.S. Indeed, one reason co-founder Parasol...
...unique. Obviously you’re influenced by whatever you hear or that you like at the time. But I think when you’re songwriting it’s important to try to not draw from those influences and try to just sit down, be a blank slate and really just let it happen. I started songwriting when I was 13 so there’s only so much life experience a thirteen-year-old can have…I used to just sit on a park bench and try to think about people’s stories...
...sideline come Saturday. But they wouldn’t take the field for a single down. Not one, Murphy said.Ever the disciplinarian, Murphy had laudably put his foot down. No rap on the knuckles, no meaningless off-season punishment, no token one-game suspension. A full slate wiped away to send the message that such behavior would not be tolerated, no exceptions, not even for Bryant, arguably the team’s most talented defensive lineman heading into the off-season. It was a classic dose of tough love, and one that figured to hurt Murphy and the 100 other...
...easier for me if I was the only one focused on that, no doubt about that,” said Hees, the libertarian challenger. SIX YEARS RUNNING?If all nine incumbents do win re-election, Koocher said it would be the first time in Cambridge history that a council slate remains static for six straight years. As for DeBergalis himself, he opted out of this year’s race, choosing to focus on an online political grassroots project called ActBlue. “I think it was going to have to be one or the other at least...
It’s the evening of Oct. 31, and, between giving lectures, writing an article for Slate magazine, and attending book release parties, Pinker needs to pay his bills...