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...The average age in the country was 37.2, and Japan was in a boom of karaoke parlours, bowling alleys, racecourses and resort hotels. The best golf courses were charging $2.6mn for membership....
...The largest pure play diesel genset maker, Generac Holdings Inc of Wisconsin, has seen its shares rise more than 250 per cent over the past 12 months and nearly eight times over the past two years....
...Right now, there’s a real shortage of diesel product and you see the petrol stations, gasoline stations. That’s a real problem and that’s showing up at the gasoline pump....
...The company has confirmed to online archivists that music has been lost permanently, dashing hopes that a back-up could be used to permanently protect the collection for future generations....
...A more profound question is how the soi-disant “Netflix of Music” might be valued....
...other prolific writer-producers such as Timbaland, Pharrell Williams and Shellback over the past 15 years has echoes of other eras, such as the first decades of the 20th century when the writers of Tin Pan Alley...
...He names all the does after Wagnerian heroines or The Sound of Music characters....
...Mr Lamb thinks Roli’s technology has applications beyond music, in areas such as mobile technology and robotics....
...If people are coming in their cars then gasoline is sold. It’s one big system just for people to come see a concert....
...I fail to see how sound decisions can be made under the influence of darkness, loud music, cocktails and naked flesh....
...Brash commercial architecture is being squeezed into the City’s complex web of Roman roads and medieval alleys, producing some of contemporary architecture’s most arresting juxtapositions and images....
...Sugar Inc runs a network of blogs for young women. Silicon Alley Insider operates a network of business news sites. Such properties can make attractive acquisition targets....
...Sources tell Silicon Alley Insider that revenue has decelerated rapidly this quarter....
...The digital comic will combine traditional print elements, such as thought and speech bubbles, with music, voices and special effects....
...“Even driving 10 miles these days is a few dollars of gasoline.”...
...Update: Peter Kafka at Silicon Alley Insider has a good analysis of the economics of an iTunes subscription service here....
...Acronym Alley needs to be bulldozed....
...The only landmarks those motorists might remember are the busy McDonald’s off Highway 400 on the southern edge of the city and “gasoline alley”, a string of garages along Highway 11 on the northern outskirts...
...“Gasoline is down, mortgage rates are down, and consumer spending is holding up,” he said....
...Stocks took an early knock after a sharp drop in US gasoline inventories last week prompted crude futures to jump more than 1 per cent....
...Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate Carolyn Sampson Hyperion Mozart’s dismissive attitude to Salzburg is well known, but it didn’t translate into inferior music - at least, not if this collection of sacred music...
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