" Major record labels signed most of the prominent grunge bands in Seattle, while a second influx of bands moved to the city in hopes of success.

Major precursors of indie pop included Postcard bands Josef K and Orange Juice, and significant labels included Creation, Subway and Glass.

Sugar Minott continued to record on his Black Roots label, Youth Promotion Label and for Major and Independent labels.

Major labels may also wholly or partially acquire independent labels.

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Major labels signed three-chord grunge / punk-style rock bands, commercial radio played them and the ' alternative ' sound soon became ubiquitous, ultimately culminating in manufactured pop groups, styled to sound raucously ' alternative ' and appearing on television commercials for mobile phones.

Major labels were also reluctant to release an album featuring cult musicians of the past, causing Grohl to opt for the smaller, metal-based Southern Lord Records.

" Major record labels signed most of the remaining grunge bands in Seattle, while a second influx of acts moved to the city in the hope of success.

Major record labels also released tribute albums ; at one point there were at least six Kennedy tribute albums available for purchase in record stores, with the most popular being Dickie Goodman's John Fitzgerald Kennedy: The Presidential Years 1960-1963 ( 20th Century 3127 ), which climbed to number eight on the Billboard album chart and stood as the biggest-selling tribute album of all time until the double-CD tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales thirty-four years later ().

Major industrial employers include Greening Donald ( automotive airbag components ), Resolve Corporation ( computer outsourcing ), Clorox Company of Canada ( Glad garbage bags ), Relizon Canada ( pressure sensitive labels ), Plastiflex Canada Inc. ( plastic hoses ), Rochling Engineering Plastics ( formerly Symplastics Limited )( plastic sheets ) and HiSAN of Canada ( automotive components ).

Major labels including A & M ( UK ) were starting to show interest, but certain band members felt loyal to the Factory organisation.

Artists who attend are usually either promoting their own existing enterprise or are promoting Major labels or other corporate bodies.

Major record companies began to open " superclubs " promoting their own acts, forcing many independent clubs and labels out of business.

Major fashion labels such as Carolina Herrera, Oscar de la Renta, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Liz Claiborne, Nicole Miller, and Andrew Marc have showrooms, production facilities, or support offices located in the Garment District.

Major label advances are generally much larger than independent labels can offer.

Major labels tend to ask for more options in a contract than independents.

Major labels tend to watch indie label artists and gauge their success, and may offer to sign acts from independents when their contract is up.

Major record companies and their major indie satellite labels will not offer the artist the option to finance the production of their own master.

Major labels had had some success promoting two kinds of country acts: Southern novelty performers like Tex Williams and singers like Frankie Laine, who mixed pop and country in a conventionally sentimental style.

Just as I straightened up with my duffel bag, I heard: `` Sahjunt Yoorick, meet Mrs. Major J. A. Roebuck ''.

The Americans lost forty-four men, among them Major Joseph Morris of Morgan's regiment, an officer who was regarded with high esteem and affection, not only by his commander, but by Washington and Lafayette as well.

There was a little blood on the hem of her dress, for the assassin had slashed Miss Harris's companion, Major Rathbone, with a knife.

The club then moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in and played in that city through ( sometimes referred to as the " Football Cardinals " and / or the " Big Red " to avoid confusion with the Major League Baseball St. Louis Cardinals ).

Randy Johnson was awarded with his fourth consecutive Cy Young Award as well the Major League Baseball Triple Crown.

After winning the opening game of the season on March 31 on the road against the Cincinnati Reds, the Diamondbacks found themselves with the best record in Major League Baseball, 20 – 8, by the start of May.

From then on, though of course with some exceptions, Christian art represented angels with wings, as in the cycle of mosaics in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major ( 432-440 ).

Major population growth within Ajaccio occurred between 1945 and 1975, with a doubling of the city's population, caused by a general shift of the population away from rural areas.

By contrast, Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities ( 1987 ) portrays a wealthy, white protagonist, Sherman McCoy, getting lost off the Major Deegan Expressway in the South Bronx and having an altercation with locals.

In Major League Baseball history, Ty Cobb had a record 4, 191 hits ( later revised to 4, 189 ) by 1928 in sports | 1928 ; Pete Rose would surpass it 57 years later, and finish with 4, 256 career hits.

In 1887, Hugh Nicol set a still-standing Major League record with 138 stolen bases, many of which would not have counted under modern rules.

In the United States and Canada, professional Major League Baseball ( MLB ) teams are divided into the National League ( NL ) and American League ( AL ), each with three divisions: East, West, and Central.

The factors cited are: smaller sized ballparks than in the past, " juiced baseballs " implying that the balls are wound tighter thus travel further following contact with the bat, " watered down pitching " implying that lesser quality pitchers are up in the Major Leagues due to too many teams.

Before the 1910 season, Hugh Chalmers of Chalmers Automobile announced he would present a Chalmers Model 30 automobile to the player with the highest batting average in Major League Baseball at the end of the season.

In 1957, the term was first defined as someone with fewer than 75 at bats or 45 innings pitched in any previous Major League season.

* The Babe Ruth Award is an annual award given to the Major League Baseball ( MLB ) player with the best performance in the World Series.

* List of Major League Baseball players with 1000 RBI

* List of Major League Baseball players with 2, 000 hits

* List of Major League Baseball players with 1, 000 runs

* List of Major League Baseball players with 400 doubles

In September 2002 it was revealed that, prior to his promotion to the cabinet, Major had himself had a long-standing extramarital affair with a fellow MP, Edwina Currie.

* In 2002, Edwina Currie revealed that she had had an affair, beginning in 1984, with John Major before he became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Major roles of clinical engineers include training and supervising biomedical equipment technicians ( BMETs ), selecting technological products / services and logistically managing their implementation, working with governmental regulators on inspections / audits, and serving as technological consultants for other hospital staff ( e. g. physicians, administrators, I. T., etc .).

However, there are some exceptions: many of the stars in the constellation of Ursa Major ( including most of the Big Dipper ) are genuinely close to one another, travel through the galaxy with similar velocities, and are likely to have formed together as part of a cluster that is slowly dispersing.