This has been a solid launch for Microsoft, and great critical and audience reception will likely yield huge sales for the game.

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But despite this rapturous reception, audience feedback prompted Tickell to re-edit the film incorporating many more alternative energies.

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Though that had met with a poor reception, Ms Berman said "there's no question that the audience, in our mind, is ready, willing and able to accept new programming in the summer".

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Following the private reception, finalists were invited on stage to present elevator pitches to a broader public audience that included impact investors, business leaders, nonprofits and other civic minded individuals.

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Hall received a better reception from her former partner, Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, who was in the audience.

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