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...converts them back into sound. Richard Heffernan, vice president of Information Security Associates, a Connecticut firm that makes countersnooping equipment, doubts that this technique is all that practical -- yet. A window, he explains, vibrates not only from voices inside but also with sounds that strike it from outside: jets overhead, traffic below, birds chirping. "Picking something off the window is difficult to do in most locations due to the high ambient noise outside," says he. Another expert, however, says the Defense Department is concerned enough about laser snooping so that it has rigged the walls of rooms in the Pentagon...
Palandjian and Engle overwhelmed Settles and Surgent with fine net play and thunderous overhead smashes to wrap up Harvard's first...
...Palandjian served his way back into the game with some crisp overhead shots down the sideline to close the deficit...
...network can break even with such ratings, Murdoch says, partly because its operation is much leaner and more efficient. "The networks have overheads of the better part of a billion dollars. We have an overhead of 70 salaries," says network TV's newest mogul. Fox has devised other ways of helping the bottom line. Its shows, for instance, will include eight minutes of commercial time an hour, a minute more than on typical network counterparts. Ad time is selling briskly so far: 30-second spots originally priced at just over $30,000 are now going for about...
...movie that consists entirely of a monologue by Actor Spalding Gray. While both companies have lately scored huge hits, their philosophy is to survive on modest successes by keeping costs low. Says Amir Malin, Cinecom's president: "The major studios have to make a tremendous profit to meet their overhead, so they go for the home run. We go for the singles...