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None are adherents of Scientology. Many are Jewish, provoking lots of buzz over why they endorsed a high-decibel comparison with the Holocaust. Marcus and others say they oppose any religious persecution. Several say they signed out of respect for the letter's author, entertainment attorney Bertram Fields, whose client list happens to include Scientology's most prominent celebrities, Tom Cruise and John Travolta...
Holbrooke's approach is high decibel as well as high energy; he once snapped at Izetbegovic, who was quibbling over the points of an agreement: "We're not going to have a peace conference without a cease-fire, and if we get a cease-fire, we'll have a peace conference. So you decide here...
Last night's game was a 2-2 tie. Turn up the decibel level, and the balance may be tipped just enough to rattle the opposition goalie or force some opposition rabbit ears to take that stupid penalty that gives Harvard the power play it needs to break the game open...
...lawsuit cites tests which show that since the new biolabs have been in use, decibel levels at and around the Walters' house have increased significantly, at times exceeding the state's legal limit...
...impact aerobics of network programming. To an aging star for whom feature-film roles have dried up and sitcoms are too demanding, a detective show can be a comfortable sinecure. For viewers tired of raucous sitcoms and hard-charging magazine shows, these TV whodunits provide easy-to-take, low-decibel entertainment. Murder, She Wrote, in its 10th season on CBS, is still a Top 10 hit; ABC's Matlock is a solid success in one of the week's toughest time periods; Diagnosis Murder and Burke's Law, new this season, have given CBS its best Friday-night ratings...