The opera world has undergone major changes since then, and City Opera, still battling back from a near-death experience four years ago, continues to search for a distinctive contemporary identity, one that will attract sufficient audiences and donors to sustain it.
The big-borrowing countries around the edge of the euro zone suffered a near-death experience in 2010, and they will be in a pretty miserable state in 2011 as austerity measures bite and households come to terms with their high debts and poor prospects.
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The chart supports the latter: while the VIX has been having a near-death experience, share prices have headed up.
The industry may feel it has come through a near-death experience in better shape than it could have hoped at the beginning of the year.
Chief executive John Chen, who steered Sybase through a near-death experience early in his career at the top there, gives a German company a solid asset.
"Life is a near-death experience, " Dr. John sings in "You Might Be Surprised, " and he's clearly addressing Hurricane Katrina's devastating effect on his beloved New Orleans.
ACAS, once the darling of the sector, had a near-death experience in 2009 as their equity-heavy investment portfolio collided with debt and bank obligations and the stock suffered a much steeper slide than the sector.
Gainsbourg had a near-death experience in 2007, but as she explained, the sound of the MRI scan helped influence her latest album, and her collaborator Beck helped her spin that frightening situation into these beautiful songs.
After a near-death experience in 1977 helped trigger a spiritual awakening, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens (and the man long ago known as Steven Demetre Georgiou) converted to Islam and retired from secular music-making in 1979.
David was a tough act to follow: A Harvard grad and international yachtsman, David has captivated the press with his marital and maritime adventures (including an ugly divorce from a Swedish countess in 2009 and a near-death experience in the 2011 Fastnet regatta, when his 100-foot racing boat capsized).
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By having a "near-death experience, " Ghosn says, Nissan uncovered excesses that profitable companies let pass.
He followed it with White Light, a slower number inspired by his near-death experience.
The chances of your colonoscopy resulting in the made-for-TV near-death experience that Dr. Mehmet Oz detailed in a six-part video series on his show and website are highly unlikely.
"It's the wrong end of the stick to think we revel in near-death experiences, " says mountaineer John Cousins, a climber with 35 years' experience.
Nelson thinks that near-death experiences are part of the dream mechanism and that the person having the experience is in a REM, or "rapid eye movement, " state.
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