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Exclamation points and toll-free telephone numbers were sprouting last week like the most impatient blossoms of spring. Banks, brokerages and other financial organizations sprinkled them across their newspaper ads, pasted them up in their windows and posted them on billboards. In an extravaganza that gets noisier every year, the institutions were making their last-minute pitches to lure millions of consumers who were shopping for investment vehicles for their individual retirement accounts...
...people ran up and down, so happy were they to be free of those things. It couldn't have been noisier if U.C.L.A. were playing U.S.C." Tribal bloodshed ceased, the fear of spirits abated, and gradually more than 100,000 of the Danis became Christians...
Sure, I'd been on roller coasters before, but never one like this: the Great American Eagle. It was bigger, faster, noisier, and above all scarier. It also presented a challenge of sorts. It required getting psyched...
...political image maker could have hoped for a noisier sendoff. Last week General Alexander Meigs Haig Jr., 54, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe, narrowly escaped death from an unidentified terrorist's bomb as he motored to NATO military headquarters in Casteau, Belgium. The blast missed Haig's Mercedes 600 limousine but blew a crater in the road, slightly injured three of his security guards and damaged their car. Two days later, Haig was jetting about Europe in a U.S. Air Force DC-9, receiving 17-gun farewell salutes. Said British Major General Geoffery B. Wilson...
...long hot summer will be noisier than usual in Cambridge this year...