Word: bettering
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...company culpable under the Sherman Act. In the classic interpretation of antitrust laws, says Washington Attorney Joe Sims, a former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department's antitrust division, it is "at least logically possible that a firm could obtain a monopoly position by doing a better job than everybody else and not doing anything improper...
...City, Mich., has taken the theory a step further by performing double mastectomies on women who had no apparent signs of the disease but were judged prone to cancer because of family history, breast tissue characteristics and other clues. The key question: Are women who take this drastic step better off than others who simply wait...
...case, Senator William Proxmire ridiculed a scientist, Ronald Hutchinson, claiming that he had wasted taxpayers' dollars with his publicly funded research. Hutchinson had received more than $500,000 to study aggression in monkeys in order to help the Navy and NASA better select crewmen for submarines and spacecraft. Calling the project "monkey business," Proxmire announced in news releases and newsletters that he had honored it with one of his monthly "Golden Fleece Awards." Hutchinson sued him for $8 million in damages for libel. Another case involved a man named Ilya Wolston, a former State Department interpreter, who had been...
Digital recording-a process that radically improves the sound of conventional phonograph records and could eventually make them obsolete-may be the single biggest sound advance since technicians discovered that two speakers were better than one. "I won't say when it will happen," says RCA Records Division Vice President Thomas Z. Shepard, "but digital is definitely on its way." Robert Ingebretsen, vice president of a digital recording company called Soundstream, Inc., compares conventional record listening to "looking out a dirty window: you can see, but not perfectly. Listening to a digital recording is like looking out the same...
...this euphoria is not the moon-gazing of laboratory visionaries, nor a spiel for still another arcane piece of audio equipment. Digital recordings do sound amazingly better, even in the hybrid form available today. Recording apparatus is beginning to be widely used, though hardware for full playback is not yet available outside the lab. Even heard on conventional equipment, the new hybrid records bring a full panorama of sound rushing from the speakers. In rock, digital is like scoring a studio seat next to the microphone. In classical, the sound is like a symphonic apotheosis. Floors vibrate; paint could crack...