Bettman wanted to focus on the positive: seven years in a row of record revenue; falling only 25 people short of the record for regular-season attendance; the league's competitive balance; and increased participation in hockey at the grassroots level.
As I looked at the innocuously framed and understated row of gold records hanging on the wall behind her, I quietly bit my tongue.
As the flighty heroine of "Dreams" (1955), for instance, Harriet Andersson explores a row of gramophone records in the house of an ageing roué, plucks one out, and reads the label aloud, saying "Saraband" and "Bach" (which she pronounces "batch").
She is confined to her apartment on the Upper West Side, with its Oriental carpets, rows of books and records, a grand piano stacked with music, photographs on the walls of grateful artists she has recorded and a letter from President Jimmy Carter, thanking her for championing American music, that hangs inconspicuously in the bathroom.
This feature is intended to remove records that duplicate each cell in the row of another record.
It supports cross-table and cross-row transactions over billions of records with hundreds of terabyte data.
The director Robert Young, a veteran of British television, and the writer Snoo Wilson hint at parallels between the Nazi bureaucracy of extermination and the Israeli bureaucracy of justice and revenge; rows of researchers sift through records for evidence of Eichmann's direct culpability.
Dr Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg, Shakur's death row contemporaries, still sell millions of records.
Rows of data-storage units record the information.
However, Oxford rowed a number of record practice times, while Cambridge met with several "disasters" (including catching some "mammoth crabs" and experiencing outings "spoilt by shipwrecks").
