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...most widely used of the noisemakers produce a mild form of radio static called "white noise" by engineers. Turned down to a discreet volume, the static masks distracting outside noises and disturbing interior echoes. The white noise has its limitations. "It's very tricky," says Robert Newman, senior vice president of Bolt Beranek & Newman, a Cambridge, Mass., company specializing in acoustic engineering. "It would take a horrendous amount of noise to mask a supersonic transport airplane. Generating white noise to hide sounds above the annoyance level is like using Chanel No. 5 to hide the fact that you haven...
...Supreme Judicial Court granted the injunction, but only on the condition that the cast stage a somewhat more discreet performance...
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...Luxe. Temporary alliances can be formed even on the airport grounds. When Orly first opened for business nine years ago, the filles meeting early morning flights became so brazen in their pursuit of business that airport authorities chased them away. Today the Orly birds are gone and a more discreet corps of poules de luxe (literally, high-price chicks) ply the airport bars on weekends...
Diplomatically, if not commercially, Tokyo has been so discreet since the U.S. occupation ended in 1952 as to be almost invisible. The most prestigious branch of the Japanese government is the Finance Ministry, not the Foreign Ministry. Japan's embassy in Djakarta is symbolic: there is a low, two-story wing for the diplomatic staff and a high-rise office tower housing Japanese trading companies...