Word: hi
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...aviation headset, made by Bose, a Framingham, Mass., manufacturer of hi-fi speakers, is one of the latest applications of antinoise, a surprising new technology that is changing the way people block unwanted sounds -- from the whine of electrical transformers to the rumble of internal- combustion engines -- while leaving human voices, alarm bells and other useful sounds untouched. The technology should have many uses: the American Medical Association estimates that more than 9 million U.S. workers are exposed to hazardous noise levels on the job. In some professions -- notably mining, shipbuilding, food processing and printing -- it is not unusual...
...only feasible action was to write off the entire weekend and gawk at the tourists, visiting college students and wistful alums. And listen--to the hi-fi din of dining-hall parties, to the crunch of empty beer cans against foreheads, and to roommate talk...
...doesn't come home and say, `Hi sweetie, how was your day,' but it's no big deal because they're always somewhere around," Laszlo Nagy says...
...somebody, you say, "Hi, I'm so-and-so I'm from here,' and that's about as deep as the relationship gets," Toth says...
...common-law suitors are often betrayed by photographs, and, in response to all this, more and more people choose to interface, date or even make love over the phone. If a modern Juliet were to try to reach her lover before feigning her own death, she might well hear, "Hi! This is Romeo! Nobody's here right...