This made it hard to swallow and harder to speak, though his voice had long ago sunk to a growl since a botched operation on his voice box in 1993.

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He has also submitted to the board a modernization plan that would bring the venue up to entertainment industry standards through capital projects, improvements in the box-office operation and refinements in management.

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Box was still a tiny operation.

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