Word: droning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Back to My Heart (whose melody echoes Paul McCartney's I've Just Seen a Face) is a lesson in hard-earned self-reliance; Happiness (lyric by Michael McDonald) has the ethereal Eire sound of Enya. The anthemic finale, There Is a Reason, begins in a string-quartet drone and escalates to a wilderness cry for salvation. These are songs in the past tense--love mourned, pain savored, from beyond the grave. Or from heaven: Krauss has the voice of a lost angel, beckoning you into the beyond...
That is an intolerable loss of time, especially given the high prices the Army pays for its computer gear. The laptops range from $93,000 for a "hardened" military version to $11,000 for a supposedly off-the-shelf model. One of the systems used last week, the Hunter drone powered by a $53,000 motorcycle engine, has already been killed by the Pentagon for poor performance. In all, the Army spent $258 million outfitting EXFOR, the 1st Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division of Fort Hood, Texas...
McCarthy and Crowley have also developed enhanced hearing as a result of listening to the constant drone of their police radio...
Schmidt loves his daughter and admires his future son-in-law, but he likes neither. He sees Charlotte as "a smug overworked yuppie" and Riker as an uncultured legal drone. Riker is also a Jew, which puts Schmidt in the awkward position of being branded a bigot because he does not enthusiastically welcome him into his family. To complicate the issue, Schmidt must vigorously fend off Riker's mother, an overzealous psychiatrist who treats him as if he were a repressed Wasp. What she does not know is that Schmidt is having a hell of a good time...
...crisp snap of an October morn. The distant roar of a football stadium. The chatty drone of Oscar hopefuls being hyped. The inescapable thud as Michael Crichton's next best seller hits bookstores every-where. Yes, fall brings not only nature's harvest but culture's as well. A selective look at the new season's glories...