Word: cd
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Digital sound, recorded by a computer and played back with a laser beam, offers brighter highs and truer lows than conventional analog recording techniques, and eliminates compression and distortion as well. The CD medium has several other practical advantages: most players can be programmed to select cuts in any sequence or repeat a favorite indefinitely; the discs never wear out, since only light touches their surface, and with up to 74 minutes of music on the one usable side, they never have to be flipped over. Finally, they are as easily stored as tapes, yet offer amenities (liner notes, opera...
...primary target of the intermediate and upper level courses is to give students a practical command of the language, according to Rivers. For example, the recently created Spanish Cd, "Spanish Oral Survival Course," was designed so that "if a student were helicoptered into Spain tomorrow, he or she could communicate," Rivers explained...
...cd-1 R P I16-2-0 cd-2 Boston University 14-4-0 c-3 Boston College 14-4-0 c-4 Clarkson 12-6-0 c-5 New Hampahire 13-7-0 c-6 Providence 11-7-2 7 St Lawrence 10-8-0 d.g. Harvard 8-8-2 8 Northeastern 9-9-1 10 Colgate 8-9-1 11 Yale 9-10-1 12 Cornell 7-11-0 13 Maine 7-13-0 14 Vermont 5-12-1 15 Princeton 5-13-1 15 Brown 5-13-1 17 Dartmouth...
...CD. Anderson & Co., a small San Francisco discount brokerage firm, began using home computers to place stock trade orders. Tapping a few keystrokes on an Apple II or IBM Personal Computer, the customer is asked, "Buy or sell? Number of shares? Cash or margin account?" The broker charges an initial $195 for the software, a 100-to-400-per-minute connection fee and a brokerage commission. Anderson has 300 customers across the U.S. and hopes for 1,000 by year...
...rates: "We have chosen, as I think we should, to have a wide-ranging bill of rights, but we must be willing to pay the price of that choice," including, if necessary, "a somewhat higher level of crime and disorder than we might otherwise have." [Thinking About crime, rev. cd...