Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moreover, doctors warn that even brief exposure to noise levels greater than 115 decibels can result in permanent hearing damage. But boomers turn a deaf ear to such objections. With one sound-off rally scheduled for Austin in two weeks and another on Easter Sunday in Daytona Beach, Fla., the air will soon be filled with the sound of cars going boom in the night...
...about its lack of respectability and legitimacy as a social force on this campus. Its attempts to initiate or influence action on such issues as divestment, minority and women hiring, and the membership of final clubs are respectable, but, it claims, these cries for change have often fallen on deaf ears. We, as students, also have been perplexed as to why the administration has cast a light eye over many of the council's petitions...
...active and engaged. He phoned nearly two dozen foreign leaders, including Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, to thank them for their congratulatory notes. He gave Government employees two lectures about ethics -- something hardly anyone opposes -- implying that the store is now under stricter management. Bush also reversed Reagan's deaf-ear strategy for handling the press, inviting several reporters to dinner and asking others to the Oval Office on short notice for impromptu question-and-answer sessions. Just in case anyone missed the point about a fast start, the President even went jogging...
...repeated Soviet proposals fall on deaf ears in the U.S., Gorbachev's opponents may label his foreign policy reforms an embarrassing failure and demand hardline dealings, says Yuen Foong Khong, an assistant professor of government who researches the psychology of diplomatic decision-making...
...DEAF AND BLIND (PBS) Cinema verite specialist Frederick Wiseman took his cameras to the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind and came back with four enlightening, often heartrending documentaries...