Word: louds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to lose your hearing if you keep listening to all that loud music," parents railed right from the beginning. "No way!" offspring scoffed, and gleefully cranked up Hot Tuna another punishing notch. Today that parental admonition is being echoed by a new -- and more credible -- source: rock musicians. John Flansburgh of the cult band They Might Be Giants half jokingly says: "Deafness is one of the little sacrifices you have to make for rock...
Each new revelation of the flunking performance of many U.S. students provokes a loud outcry for tougher standards, better instruction, classroom innovations. So far, all the noise has had shockingly limited impact on what actually goes on in the schools. Most high schools still do not require students to meet widely accepted standards for math and science. On the average, a student takes only 2.3 credits in math and 2 in science to graduate, instead of the 3 credits in each subject recommended by the National Commission on Excellence in Education...
...great tunes -- Springsteen on a two-lane blacktop -- and should have settled all conflicts of style. But, he reports, "I'm at war with the record company on the West Coast about using steel guitar and mandolin, and I'm at war with Nashville over drums being too loud. But I think everyone is starting to become more comfortable with what...
...space policy sooner rather than later. Enormous problems remain to be solved, and two decades is precious little time for developing a program that would land humans on another planet. The clock is running, and to NASA Ames Scientist Carol Stoker, the message from the Soviets is coming across loud and clear: "We're going to Mars, and the bus is leaving." And like her, more and more Americans are asking: Will the U.S. be aboard...
...long day from eight in the morning to10 at night, and that might get to be a drag,"predicts neophyte Ellen J. Rubin '89. "I'm kind ofshort so I might not be too good of an authorityfigure, but I can yell really loud...