Word: discardable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...technique itself is relatively uncomplicated -- bits of syllables are arbitrarily discarded by a special electromagnetic speech compressor machine. Cramer has found, through extensive experimentation, that the ideal "discard interval" is 14 milliseconds, or only 14/1000 of every second of recorded speech. Yet the result is good comprehension at rates up to 3 times as fast as normal conversation...
...this experiment with Cliffies came a flood of new ideas, and more original uses for compressed speech. As the tapes' discard intervals increased, or, as larger bits of words were deleted, the girls would write down what they thought they had heard, which often had no relation to what had actually been spoken on the tape. This occurrence was not strange in itself; however, what was curious was that a number of girls would write the same "wild" answer, often a proper name. Intrigued, Cramer has begun work on "auditory Rorschach tests," in which he deletes such large segments...
...Communist ex-colonials who now stand on their own. "The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect," Marcos told a joint session of the U.S. Congress. "The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism...
...exhaustive investigation that yielded countless case histories of secretive bureaucracy. The subcommittee discovered, for instance, that a bow-and-arrow weapon devised by a Pentagon civilian employee during World War II had proved useless-but by 1958 was still classed as a military secret. Moss forced many agencies to discard meaningless security precautions and marshaled bipartisan support for revision of the 1946 law that permits federal officials to clam up merely by decreeing that disclosure of data is not "in the public interest...
...cracker-barrel retail concepts with their low-price, high-volume retail stores. In 1897, he gambled his $8,000 savings on a similar shop in Memphis. On the way up, Kresge pioneered in giving his employees sick pay and paid vacations, in 1925 was the first to discard the strict nickel-and-dime rule, began offering goods from 250 to $1 as well...