Word: caccavari
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...Environmental officers are working to correct-rather than penalize-most other routine offenders. Confronted with a case involving a clattering air conditioner, Cosimo Caccavari, the city's top acoustician, asked the owner to draw a floor plan of his house. Then Caccavari suggested moving the air conditioner to another location where it would not face any near neighbor. Similarly, he showed a paint-store owner, whose rooftop ventilators had brought complaints, how to build a noise shield that would stifle the racket. He also proved to officials of an excavating company that the vibrant rat-tat-tat of their...
...Sound Barriers. Still, even the ingenious Caccavari can prescribe nothing but new equipment for the biggest group of noisemakers: motor vehicles. To date, environmental control officers have ticketed 400 vehicles-most of them heavy trucks-for exceeding legal sound barriers of 78 decibels for a car, 84 for a motorcycle and 90 for a truck. The drivers can scarcely believe their ears when they are haled to the curb for a summons. "But officer, I wasn't going too fast," pleaded one truck driver. "No, but you were going too loud," said the cop. Another trucker argued: "Our firm...
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