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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are two ways to generate an antinoise wave. The analog approach, first developed in the 1930s using vacuum-tube technology, works something like a seesaw. A mechanism drives a loud speaker that pushes the air when incoming sound waves rise and pulls it back when the sound waves fall. Alternatively, antinoise waves can be created digitally, using a signal processor to convert incoming sound waves into a stream of numbers. Given those numbers, computers can quickly calculate the frequency and amplitude of the mirror-image waves. Those specifications are then fed to a conventional speaker and broadcast into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Fighting Noise with Antinoise | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...package is part of an attempt to solvea 1990 fiscal year budget deficit now estimated at$825 million. The House earlier this fall passed abill that combined cuts, savings and non-taxrevenues to lower the deficit by about $350million...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State House Nixes Tax Increase | 12/2/1989 | See Source »

These were some of the most powerful motivations behind the creation of the state of Israel, and we are not "Zealots" if we admit it. The fact is that Israel's existence is important for more than ideological reasons. Its fall would involve more than a change in sovereignty, as in a Falklands/Malvinas farce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Israel Chooses the Lesser of Two Evils | 11/30/1989 | See Source »

...actually take a firm stand for what students want: the ability to choose where they will spend the next three years. The first-year class expected the status quo housing policy when it matriculated this fall, not some compromise plan that limits choice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Council Caved In | 11/30/1989 | See Source »

...stressed, however, that such measures couldonly be undertaken if there are truly freeelections in East Germany that includenon-socialist parties. East Germany's newCommunist leaders have said free elections couldbe held as early as next fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: W. German Chancellor Proposes Unification | 11/29/1989 | See Source »

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