Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Seeburg's jukeboxes are back, playing compact discs instead of 45s. For $1, customers can listen to three selections from CDs (the jukebox accepts no change). Eighteen plays can be heard for $5. One major attraction is that a CD jukebox can play 700 to 1,000 different songs, compared with the 200 or so that are offered by a traditional machine. Seeburg expects to sell 4,500 of its new jukes by next June...
...Harvard undergraduates daily undergo a dreaded ritual of emitting the grating sound of a tire being punctured by a rusty nail. Don't look so innocent you whey-faced, chicken-butt cowards. Yea, I know it's not you--its the next guy. Always the next guy. Well listen up, spineless--it's a community problem now, a problem we are going to have to face and deal with together...
Part of the task of extracting information from a worried and increasingly besieged Administration fell to White House Correspondents Barrett Seaman and David Beckwith. Seaman found that conducting interviews in the supercharged atmosphere pervading Washington required special vigilance. Says he: "You have to listen carefully to how sources phrase statements, look for body language and be sensitive to signals." TIME's correspondents also spent time on the phone conducting two exclusive interviews, one with President Reagan at the White House by Washington Contributing Editor Hugh Sidey and the other with Vice President George Bush at his Kennebunkport, Me., vacation home...
That summer David Kimche, then director general of Israel's Foreign Ministry, traveled to Washington to discuss the idea with McFarlane, then National Security Adviser, and North. McFarlane was in the mood to listen: though details are sketchy, the White House privately credited Iran with helping win the release *Khashoggi has denied any involvement in the Iranian arms affair...
When a single "Amen" requires the sopranos to sing 22 notes, he has the other sections pause to savor the glorious sound that their voices will support. And always he implores, "Listen to each other. Listen for the blend...