Word: decibels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Council considered moves to ban unaccompanied drummers from certain areas of Harvard Square, to ban all performers from Winthrop Park and to reduce the distance at which the acceptable decibel level for the performers is measured. All of the measures were voted down, leaving the problem of loud music in the Square unsolved--and many residents and performers unsatisfied...
...Cambridge City Council passed its nobillboards law, provoking Ackerly Communications to post a huge, ugly billboard in Porter Square reminding Cantabridgians about the Fifth Amendment. Not to be outdone, Dapper O'Neil and the Boston City Council passed a law cracking down on 130-decibel boom boxes. Yet the beat goes...
...Cambridge City Council passed its no-billboards law, provoking Ackerly Communications to post a huge, ugly billboard in Porter Square reminding Cantabridgians about the Fifth Amendment. Not to be outdone, Dapper O'Neil and the Boston City Council passed a law cracking down on 130-decibel boom boxes. Yet the beat goes...
Coming to terms with the Harvard name takes a little more practice. Only our grandparents can safely utter the name of our school at a reasonable decibel level. The rest of us have to mumble, fake a sneeze or hedge around geographical locations (Up North, New England, Massachusetts, Boston, Cambridge, Mass Ave) until we are finally pinned down...
...closed the Environmental Protection Agency's noise-control office in 1982 and dropped noise-emission labeling on such items as power tools and lawn mowers. Hearing experts call for a return of noise-emission information as well as new warning labels on audio equipment that can produce dangerously high decibel levels...