The nation's music industry hit a flat note in the first half of the year with shipments edging down 0.3 percent to 501 million units due to industry consolidation and an 8 percent jump in returns.
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Descriptions of early stints as a sidewalk Santa and a security guard at a Guerlain warehouse are mildly funny but not engaging, and economic statistics on the number of " failures " out there and their struggle to survive strike a similarly flat note.
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Ending on a flat note, Bledsoe said he did not see his performance during " Monday Night Football " when various NFL players sang . . . er, tried to sing " My Way, " but Sinatra he wasn't.
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The nation's music industry hit a flat note in the first half of the year with shipments sliding 0.3 percent to 501 million units while sales edged up 1.8 percent to $ 5.95 billion, a trade group reported Friday.
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So in what will be the home swan song for 15 BC seniors, the Eagles ( 3-5 ) will attempt to avoid hitting another flat note when they host No . 13 Notre Dame ( 6-1 ) today in their 1998 Alumni Stadium finale.
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Though his trip ended on a flat note, with his plea for more international security troops rebuffed by Britain, Prime Minister Tony Blair did grant him the opportunity to address the Cabinet, an honor he has bestowed on only one other foreign leader, Bill Clinton.
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Trenin, the deputy director of the Moscow Center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said that Russian officials already had struck an early flat note by raising concerns about allowing new NATO members _ in general, those most suspicious of Moscow _ to sit on the new council right away.
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Ruth claims it is an advantage to be tone deaf when one spends eight hours a night six nights per week in a jazz club : " Psychiatrists who come here tell me that if I heard every flat note, every wrong, voicing, I'd probably go out of my mind ."
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While I was paying what I considered a brisk, budget-conscious visit to www . stationery-studio . com, where I was virtuously considering a purchase of a set of 50 embossed flat notes in script lettering ( with matching envelopes ) for $ 25.95, she appeared at my shoulder.
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T-Pain taught the world that Auto-Tune doesn't just sharpen flat notes : It's a painterly device for enhancing vocal expressiveness, and upping the pathos . . . Kanye's digitized vocals are the sound of a man so stupefied by grief, he's become less than human ."
