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...Wellesley 15-4 and silencing the screaming masses in the gallery. But they were only dormant, not dead. Strong inside work by Lisa Griffin, the game's high scorer with 19 points, and some timely steals by Joanie Ashley added up to 10 straight Wellesley points and an astronomic decibel level...
...Chance. The alarm sounds a deafening, 85-decibel squawk even before fire has actually broken out?smoke from a nearby overdone roast can set it off. Easy to install, the bowl-shaped sensors can be simply plugged into house current. Even better, some are powered by batteries; these generally last a year and chirp insistently when they are running down. Smoke sleuths can be used in conjunction with heat detectors (cost: $100 plus for a complete system). Heat detectors are slower to sound a smoke alarm and are used mainly in closed areas such as basements and garages, where...
...flap illustrates a hardy truism: steel-price increases arouse more political excitement than increases in the price of almost anything else. True, the decibel level of the uproar this time hardly matched the furor of 1952, when settlement of a bitter steel strike turned largely on how big a price increase mills would be granted under Korean War price controls, or 1962, when President Kennedy marshaled all the power of the White House to force a steel-price rollback. Still, steel men note caustically, aluminum makers in November announced price increases of as much as 11 % on some products without...
...drinking this year has brought with it a few characteristics that Whitlock says he is seeing for the first time--particularly the phenomenon of noise. "The decibel levels of the yelling and screaming is alarming," he says. "I'm hearing animal screams...
...American rock group works harder or equals the decibel level of Lynyrd Skynyrd, a band of seven Southerners who seldom see their homes outside Jacksonville. An energetic blend of English heavy metal and funky, rural blues, Skynyrd's music occasionally dominates its lyrics, but their teeny-tot fans like it that way. The group, named after the members' high school gym teacher (perversely spelled but phonetically pronounced), has sold more than 3 million albums. Its fifth LP, One More from the Road, has recorded sales of 350,000 copies since its release four weeks...