Word: decibels
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...When Sabich discovers the county medical examiner is falsifying records, for example, his voice rises and shakes. A single tear trickles slowly down his face near the end of the movie, and the drama Ford creates seems a lot stronger than that manufactured by a typical compilation of 100-decibel Hollywood wails...
Accordingly, the new law stipulates that nightime noise measurements be monitered from inside a residential dwelling. Originally, the Council proposed to enforce its 50 decibel noise ceiling by measurements taken from outside, a move Stephen Baird, president of the Street Artists Guild, had said "reduced the First Amendment to a whisper...
...headquarters was suddenly shattered last week by the howling of guitars and a raw-edged voice singing "You cut all the tall trees down, you poisoned the sky and the sea . . ." It was the music of Midnight Oil, the crusading Australian rock group, which staged a brief but high-decibel lunchtime concert below the company's windows. Between songs, lead singer Peter Garrett condemned Exxon's Alaskan oil spill. "You can't treat the world like a garbage dump," he said...
...Communist Party leadership is attempting to stifle dissent while it tries to put the best face on an unpopular regime. Recent decisions to relax the government's two-year-old economic austerity program, lift martial law in Beijing and the Tibetan capital of Lhasa and tone down the ideological decibel level represent a modest victory for the pragmatic approach of retired patriarch Deng Xiaoping over a clutch of veteran hard- liners. Yet Deng, 85, remains locked in a paralyzing succession struggle that precludes any but the most cosmetic policy changes in the near future. "What we are seeing...
...Hill" speech at the 1984 convention, he has been reluctant to sing before a national audience. D.L.C. stalwarts like Bentsen, Al Gore and Robb have tin ears. Nunn's libretto -- defense and national-security policy -- seems increasingly irrelevant for a world rushing toward peace. The current season's high-decibel speaker, House majority leader Richard Gephardt, seems too opportunistic as he screeches out a hard-rock message of economic nationalism and a Free Enterprise Corps while bashing Bush for timidity. Bill Bradley is the party's rap star, tapping out his proposals for Third World debt, tax-code overhaul...