Word: audio
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...only sound competing with the ever-wailing wind. In the bar room on the ground floor of the Hotel Surkhon, the town's lone oasis, a few young men are drinking beer and vodka chasers around the pool table. The melody, Things Can Only Get Better, booms from the audio system. It's a tenuous hope...
SIDNEY HARMAN Audio executive...
...Harman is still in the driver's seat as executive chairman of the Washington-based audio-technology firm Harman International Industries. In August, Harman, who is married to Democratic Representative Jane Harman of California, oversaw an $850 million deal to provide entertainment systems for Mercedes. The dashboard components--similar to those Harman already produces for Porsche, Audi and BMW--will replace a clutter of knobs and buttons with a single touchscreen panel that allows drivers to control not only temperature, navigation and stereo sound systems but also access to the Internet, e-mail and video...
...hired a taxi to take us to Kabul that night, a journey breaking all curfews and punishable by summary execution for the driver. Nobody spoke. As we bribed our way through various checkpoints, festooned with confiscated and unspooled audio and videotape, our fear became oppressive. At 11:30 p.m., a couple of hours from Kabul, our driver informed us that the next few guard posts could not be bought off. With hundreds of traveling Afghans around us, we slept on the floor of a dust-blown restaurant until 3.30 a.m., the hour at which the Taliban allows travel to start...
Even if Sanders is the only space on campus currently capable of providing sufficient audio-visual equipment to “Samurai,” this demonstrates a clear misprioritization by the University. With an $18.3 billion endowment, Harvard should not restrict student course selection because of a lack of audio-visual equipment. If “Samurai” needs more advanced audio-visual equipment, the University should install the necessary technology in another room...