Word: listens
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Then the Nats move into town. I begin to follow their games. They begin to win, and I'm hooked. By night, I listen to them on radio. By day, I follow pitch by pitch on the Nats' website--when I'm supposed to be writing. When they lose, I'm grumpy. When they win one, which is rare these days, I'm up. This is really crazy. It's one thing when your childhood is at stake, you've grown up with the team, and you tell yourself you're rooting on behalf of your late father of blessed...
...though 29% of voters say they're still undecided. Merkel was feeling upbeat enough last week to take on her most voluble rivals. At a televised roundtable of candidates, she even managed to silence Joschka Fischer, the garrulous leader of the Greens and Germany's Foreign Minister. "You will listen to me," she intoned when he interrupted her, elucidating her tax plan...
...ultimately recognize individual voices. So far, Nexidia is selling its system to government intelligence agencies and telephone customer-service centers. Outsourcing companies with call centers can use the software to search for phrases such as "Can you repeat that?" and "I don't understand you," then listen to the entire call to troubleshoot. Much of the company's work is classified, but Nexidia says its Arabic language model is in wide use today in Iraq. Helping compensate for the shortage of Arabic linguists in the U.S. intelligence community, Nexidia's technology can "listen" to audio and alert linguists to phrases...
...fans with his darkly atmospheric 1990 TV series Twin Peaks. TIME deemed the show "hauntingly original." As the 1990 fall TV season began, we devoted a cover story to Lynch, describing him as a "wild-at-art genius" and including his whimsical remarks on staying young [Oct. 1, 1990]: "Listen to [Lynch] on the subject of aging?which, as so many things do, attracts and repels him. 'Scientists are working right now ... to give us a better life. I hope they make some big breakthroughs soon. If you could only reconcile the mental with the physical, then throw...
...help me write this song." Still, his behavior during awards season was reminiscent of the video-set collision between church architecture and large breasts. It seemed a little forced. "He's trying to change this genre, and in order to do that he's got to get people to listen to his music," says a fervent McDaniels. "They've gotten so used to hardness, to stupidity, that if he has to engage in a little of that to be relevant...