Word: loudnesses
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SARGENT: We started with customers and said, "What's important to you?" They told us we weren't terribly differentiated. OfficeMax, Office Depot, Staples--all the same thing, same products, same prices, same service. We heard loud and clear that we had drifted more toward a casual consumer approach rather than our core, which was small business. We heard that our service was just O.K. and that maybe price wasn't as important as it used...
Anyone who has ever tried to study in Loker Commons or a House dining hall will confirm the impossibility of significant productivity in the presence of vacuum cleaners, loud conversations, and big-screen televisions. Even if an undergraduate wanted to study late in one of these presently-available alternatives, he or she would be foiled by a 2 a.m. closing time (in the case of Loker) or the need to clean and tidy before the next day arrives (as far as dining halls are concerned...
...According to a July 2004 memo signed by a top FBI official, FBI agents reported that they had seen prisoners subjected to physical mistreatment, loud music, extreme temperatures and a lack of food, water and furniture. An FBI agent there observed that one detainee who had been left in a cell where the temperature had climbed above 100?? "was almost unconscious on the floor, with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been literally pulling his own hair out throughout the night...
Yusniar still hears the roaring in her head, the waves thunderously loud. The sea that was supposed to be a mother, protecting, sustaining, became a fury, sweeping two of her children away...
...closest thing the college rock scene ever got to an anthem—as well as the catchiest (and only) love song ever written about Buñuel and Dalí’s Un chien andalou—immediately animated the crowd. The sound was clean, loud and well-mixed. The bass anchored, the drums propelled, the guitars sang and Black’s voice mauled. The Pixies were back together. This is what the crowd had waited 12 years to hear...