Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...steadfastly updates the library Web site and its section entitled "Where's the Noise?" to help patrons stay in relatively quiet sections of the library. The site directs library users away from stairways that might be under construction as the library heads into the second phase of its construction or from areas where there will be "intermittent drilling...
...fearsome nuclear family, 30 vessels bristling with 38 weapons apiece. Designed to prowl the world's shallow coastal waters, where the Navy believes future conflicts could erupt, Virginia-class subs will whisper above the ocean floor, making only 10% of the noise of today's already library-quiet submarines...
Perhaps that is why the U.S. Navy is increasingly shifting its warnings to the threat posed by some two dozen other nations--from China to Iran--operating more than 100 diesel-electric subs. Vessels of this type are quiet underwater, but their need to recharge their batteries forces them to surface every day or so, when they become sitting ducks. Nonetheless, Navy planners repeatedly cite the possibility that Iran's three Russian-made Kilo subs could bottle up the mouth of the Persian Gulf in a time of crisis, picking off thin-skinned oil tankers like marksmen at a state...
Jones made her name in the 1970s with brutal tales of sexual abuse and violence. So when she came forth with last year's The Healing, a quiet, sweetly engaging novel that took a National Book Award nomination, readers found themselves surprised as much as delighted. Jones returns with the story of a black female truck driver in south Texas who winds up in an effort to harbor border crossers. Mosquito is a carnival of digression and free association, though, with the plot hijacked for paragraphs, if not pages, by muddled tangents. Questions of racial identity provide an interesting subtext...
...promote this development, the College has the responsibility to encourage their students to take breaks from their busy lives. At the moment Harvard is solely a voice of academic authority. Unfortunately, the administration remains uncharacteristically quiet about the social scene, sending students the message that this side of their personalities is hardly worth cultivating...