This set marked the first time in history that a musician had signed an exclusive music distribution deal with a single retailer .< ref name =" newman "> The set sold more than 500, 000 physical copies on its issue date, proving that Brooks still had a large fan base.

On June 27, 2006, nine months after it signed the contract, Concourse was sold, at a 33 % profit, to Boingo Wireless Inc. for $ 45 million.

Numan signed to IRS Records and his final studio album of the 1980s, the edgy, industrial-funk Metal Rhythm ( 1988 ) found favour with fans and scored some positive reviews in the UK music press, but it sold poorly despite two hit singles.

In 1537, Francis signed the Ordonnance de Montpellier, decreeing that his library be given a copy of every book to be sold in France.

Prior to the 1950s, the various stages of the recording and marketing process had been carried out by different professionals within the industry – A & R managers found potential new artists and signed them to their labels ; professional songwriters created new material ; publishing agents sold these songs to the A & R people ; staff engineers carried out the task of making the recordings in company-owned studios.

In May, Warner Bros. sold back its exclusivity rights to ERPI ( along with the Fox-Case sublicense ) and signed a new royalty contract similar to Fox's for use of Western Electric technology.

Eager to make his first solo album, Martin signed the contract without reading it and inadvertently signed a deal in which he would only be awarded one cent of royalties for each album sold.

Sports memorabilia signed by a whole team can often be sold for hundreds or thousands of dollars.

Some deceivers cut pages from books that American President Richard Nixon ( c. 1970 ) signed on the blank flyleaf, typed his letter of resignation from the presidency on that signed page, and then sold the doctored item as if Nixon had personally signed a scarce copy of the historical document.

In September 2002, Governor Davis signed bills to ensure age verification was obtained for cigarettes and other tobacco products sold over the Internet or through the mail, ensured that all state taxes are being fully paid on tobacco purchases and increased the penalty for possessing or purchasing untaxed cigarettes.

During the 2005 legislative session, Vilsack signed into law greater restrictions that require products containing the active ingredient pseudoephedrine to be sold behind pharmacy counters, as opposed to open-access at open-shelf level.

Chief Nannawitt sold lands in North Jersey, signed the Wawayanda Patent and witnessed the Cheesecock Patent

John Adams owned none ; George Washington freed his slaves in his will ( his wife independently held numerous dower slaves ); Thomas Jefferson freed five slaves in his will, and the remaining 130 were sold to settle his estate debts ; James Madison did not free his slaves but some were sold to pay off estate debts, and his wife and son retained most to work Montpelier plantation ; Benjamin Franklin freed his slaves ; Alexander Hamilton likely owned slaves and freed them, as he was an officer of the New York Manumission Society ; the society was founded by John Jay, who freed his domestic slaves in 1798, the same year as governor he signed a gradual abolition law in New York.

The painting, created during the same evening and sold at the charity auction, represents film, surrounded by all the other celebrities present, and was signed by all the present personalities.

Returning once more as a solo performer, Rowland signed to Creation Records, releasing an album of interpretations of " classic " songs called My Beauty in 1999, which received virtually no radio airplay and sold poorly.

On the heels of its belated hit single, Styx signed with A & M Records and released Equinox ( 1975 ), which sold well and yielded a minor hit in " Lorelei ", No. 27 in the U. S. More importantly, it contained the rock anthem " Suite Madame Blue ", which gained the band considerable recognition and airplay on FM radio in the relatively new Album Oriented Rock ( AOR ) format.

Once signed to Capitol Records, Hammer re-issued his first record ( a revised version of Feel My Power ) with additional tracks added and sold over 2 million copies.

They signed a total of eight new players and sold, released or loaned out nine of their existing players.

He also sold his own breath ( enclosed in balloons ) as Bodies of Air, and signed people's bodies, thus declaring them to be living works of art either for all time or for specified periods.

The band then signed with Columbia Records in 1996 ( although Dexter claims that Brett Gurewitz, owner of Epitaph and guitarist for Bad Religion, sold the contract to Columbia ) for whom they released their next six albums, Ixnay on the Hombre ( 1997 ), Americana ( 1998 ), Conspiracy of One ( 2000 ), Splinter ( 2003 ), Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace ( 2008 ), and their most recent, Days Go By ( 2012 ).

so Cyrus Adler became interested in her friend Racie Friedenwald, and Joe Jastrow -- the only young man who when he wrote had the temerity to address her as Henrietta, and signed himself Joe -- fell in love with pretty sister Rachel.

Comic Gary Morton signed to play the Living Room here Dec. 18, because that's the only time his heart, Lucille Ball, can come along.

In all, the Senate signed a check for $46.7 billion, which not only included the extra $3.5 billion requested the week before by President Kennedy, but tacked on $754 million more than the President had asked for.

René, whose possession included now only part of the Abruzzi and Naples, obtained 10, 000 men from the pope, but the cardinal leading them signed a truce with Alfonso.

Applesoft converted integer numbers to real before performing operations on them, converting the result back to an integer only if it was to be assigned to a ( 16-bit signed ) integer variable.

This is the only existing engraving signed with his full name.

Of the 175 parties to the Convention, only Afghanistan, Haiti, and the United States have signed the Convention but not yet ratified it.

Bronski Beat signed a recording contract with London Records in 1984 after doing only nine live gigs.

Greece was the only Balkan country with a navy powerful enough to deny use of the Aegean to the Ottoman Empire, thus a treaty between Greece and Bulgaria became necessary ; it was signed in May 1912.

The term " deed ", also known in this context as a " specialty ", is common to signed written undertakings not supported by consideration: the seal ( even if not a literal wax seal but only a notional one referred to by the execution formula, " signed, sealed and delivered ", or even merely " executed as a deed ") is deemed to be the consideration necessary to support the obligation.

In 1917 he submitted the now famous Fountain, a urinal signed R. Mutt, to the Society of Independent Artists exhibition only to have the piece rejected.

It was only in October 1328, after a short-lived peace treaty between Scotland and England, the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton ( which renounced all English claims to Scotland and was signed by the new English king, Edward III, on 1 March 1328 ), that the interdict on Scotland and the excommunication of its king were finally removed.

She had signed with Monument Records in late 1965, where she was initially pitched as a bubblegum pop singer, earning only one national-chart single, " Happy, Happy Birthday Baby ", which did not crack the Billboard Hot 100.

With Screen Gems producing the series, Jones was shortlisted for auditions, as he was the only Monkee who was signed to a deal with the studio, but still had to meet producers Bob Rafelson's and Bert Schneider's standards.

Louis XIV had hoped that a show of force would lead to a quick resolution to his dynastic and territorial disputes with the princes of the Empire along his eastern border, but his intimidatory moves only strengthened German resolve, and in May 1689 Leopold I and the Dutch signed an offensive compact aimed at repelling French aggression.

At the First Council of Nicaea, 325, he signed the Confession, but only after a long and desperate opposition in which he " subscribe with hand only, not heart " according to ancient sources.

A pair of these expensive and bulky machines could only be afforded by companies with a serious need to communicate drawings, design sketches or signed documents between distant locations, such as an office and factory.

Consequently, when The Byrds ' Columbia recording contract was renewed on February 29, 1968, it was only original members Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman who signed it.

Compared to a C floating-point library, Horner's method sacrifices some accuracy, however it is nominally 13 times faster ( 16 times faster when the " canonical signed digit " ( CSD ) form is used ), and uses only 20 % of the code space.

Integral types may be unsigned ( capable of representing only non-negative integers ) or signed ( capable of representing negative integers as well ).

India and Japan signed a security cooperation agreement in which both will hold military exercises, police the Indian Ocean and conduct military-to-military exchanges on fighting terrorism, making India one of only three countries, the other two being the United States and Australia, with which Japan has such a security pact.

Jordan and Egypt are the only two Arab nations to have signed a peace treaty with Israel.