The key is finding a potentially valuable back in the middle rounds.
Country music producer Shelby Singleton bought Sun in 1969, and ever since his family has owned a major stake in the valuable back catalogue of more than 7,000 songs.
In the morning, we sailed on to Pag: a long, salt-rich island battled over for centuries by Croatians, Hungarians and Venetians vying to control the local trade in "white gold": a commodity that was as valuable back then as oil is today.
The attempted occupation of the US became a colony of convicts, and a farm for sea mammals that were valuable back in mainland Russia for their waterproof qualities.
Understanding the order of early splits is crucial for accurately reconstructing nematode evolution; molecular phylogenies provide a valuable glimpse back in time, given the non-existent fossil record for nematodes.
Follow-up studies in humans implicated that this method may be a "valuable fall back option," when the biceps brachii function should be restored after sustaining brachial plexus injuries [ 27].
The first person to suspect that the autograph market was being undermined by a gifted forger was Bergquist, who early in 1933, while investigating the theft from the Public Library of some valuable back issues of the Christian Science Journal, paid a visit to the Rare Book Company, at 99 Nassau Street, which, as he knew, specializes in Christian Science publications.
Piss was so valuable back then that those who sold it had to pay a specific tax.
You probably don't want him catching his whole life, but he's so valuable back there right now".
Hands borrowed heavily to fund the deal, using money provided by Terra Firma's investors, and EMI's valuable back catalogue, as collateral, but even then some questioned whether he was right to pay the amount he did for a business that was struggling to come to terms with downloads and a dramatic decline in physical music sales.
