In January 2008, the Federal Transit Administration announced that they would finance $ 830 million of the cost for the construction of the line after Sound Transit agreed to add $ 127 million in contingency amounts to cover unseen costs of the tunneling.
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At the age of 19, Charles D'Alberto ventured out and started his first business, Frontline Sound Studios, and within 3 years of opening it became the largest and most sought after sound studio in the southern hemisphere with an operation spanning over 25, 000sqft.
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Indian singer Benny Dayal, who had heard the duo's vocals after sound testing for a Kannada film, put the duo in contact with A . R . Rahman, who recorded with them the soundtrack " Irumbile Oru Irudhaiyam " in the 2010 film " Enthiran ".
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"I came in the business just about five years after sound came in, " said Wise, the 83-year-old filmmaker, seated in his modest office in Beverly Hills the other morning, just days before he was to receive the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award Thursday night.
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Historian Richard W . Bann, in an article on laurel-and-hardy . com, asserts that Davidson's career was scuttled by MGM chiefs Louis B . Mayer and Nicholas Schenck, who objected to his portrayal of a stereotypical ( and more importantly, unassimilated ) Jew and forced Roach to terminate him shortly after sound arrived.
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Clara Bow, after sound and scandal short-circuited her career . ( Plodding as cinema and racist in its implications, this sordid saga of a half American Indian vixen is best known today for its often anthologized scene of two men dressed as French maids entertaining the patrons of a Greenwich Village speakeasy .)
