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...The biggest one for Swift, in a career during which she has hardly taken a false step, is the record deal that she signed at the age of 15 with the Nashville label Big Machine Records in 2005....
...An alternative is the utility terrain vehicle (UTV), which looks to the untrained eye like a golf buggy with a roll cage. Polaris and Yamaha are among the market leaders....
...Octavo Notebooks) and the London bombings of 2005 (Infra, inspired by TS Eliot’s The Waste Land)....
...For them, Japanese manufacturer Yamaha offers its 2020 FJR1300, a “sports tourer” capable of more than 150mph and featuring two riding modes, adjustable seat height and steering angles and LED lighting all...
...It was here in 2005 that Briton Julius Strauss, 52, and his Estonian wife, Kristin, 43, had first pitched up....
...Five years ago, The Onion, a satirical news organisation, spoofed Yamaha by imagining its chief executive saying: “At the Yamaha Corporation, we’re focused on one thing and one thing alone — quality sound...
...in Yamaha’s 1980s Synclavier keyboard might provide a solution....
...of the Yamaha Supercross motorcycle racing team....
...Rob Wiesenthal, executive vice president and chief financial officer of SCA, is expected to take a senior operational role at Sony ATV, having engineered the EMI deal which could make it the world’s largest...
...That represents about18 per cent of music publishers’ $5.6bn global revenues, up from about $800m or 15 per cent in 2005, Enders says....
...All three made a profit on their 2004 buy-out of Warner Music from Time Warner when they took the company public at $17 a share in 2005....
...The ever-entertaining Onion is running a skit about Yamaha of Japan under the headline: Yamaha CEO Pleased With Current Production Of Jet Skis, Alto Saxophones, Snowmobiles, Power Generators, Scooters,...
...A $300m loan secured against Jackson’s stake in Sony ATV, the music publishing joint venture which owns the rights to most songs by The Beatles, comes due at the end of this year....
...Revenues soared from $50m in 2005 to $1.3bn in 2008 and the share price initially followed suit jumping from below $1 in 2005 to $27 in 2007, as investors eyed the potential for even bigger orders....
...“You’ve got to appoint someone who’s in charge of this – a trustee,” said J Duross O’Bryan, a forensic accountant and managing director of AlixPartners who examined Jackson’s finances during a 2005 molestation...
...She dismisses the notion of structural problems, suggesting that the M-ATV contract was always a long shot while the FMTV trucks are more commoditised, and so more vulnerable to competition....
...Through Sony ATV, a 50-50 joint venture with Sony, Jackson controls the rights to the Beatles catalogue as well as songs from artists as diverse as Bob Dylan and Lady Gaga....
...Guitars and keyboards will also be up for grabs, such as a Yamaha baby grand piano and a Hammond organ (each $15,000-$20,000), while a collection of 31 singles and LPs from his personal archive is modestly...
...the Yamaha race team....
...Analysts said on Monday it was likely that Sabah and ATV would be resold at a later date and could attract international interest....
...Elsewhere, Koc has partnered with Unicredito of Italy in banking, Yamaha of Japan in engines and LG of South Korea in electronics....
...The newspaper suffered enormous embarrassment in 2005 when a reporter deliberately exaggerated the US casualties caused by a Jordanian suicide bomber in Iraq whom he considered a “martyr”....
...In the process, Lifan and hundreds of other Chinese companies have presented a fierce challenge to Japanese giants such as Honda and Yamaha....
...Yamaha, which runs music schools in dozens of countries, opened its first in China barely a year ago. The Shanghai school already boasts 640 students....
...Prior to the financial crisis of 2001, Dinc Bilgin, the media baron rivalled Aydin Dogan’s Hurriyet with his own daily Sabah, and his ATV enjoyed a comfortable lead over Dogan’s Kanal D, but Mr Bilgin lost...
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