Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delaying replacement of their old cars, but at some point they will be forced to take them off the road. The new voluntary restrictions on Japanese auto exports should also eventually help the sale of American models. But it may be a while before lacocca will be able to repeat last week's profit announcement...
...problem, the researchers found, is that the elderly cannot easily switch from one voice to another. Given sequences of sentences recorded by different people and played back on stereo tapes as if the voices were coming from different locations, the old people were usually confused. Rabbitt asked them to repeat aloud everything said on the tapes, and though the subjects did well as long as they could home in on a single voice, whenever there was a change in voice or location, they had trouble...
...adequate for their age, but straining to hear well can drain their energies. Some years ago, Rabbitt did studies for the British Post Office showing that sounds heard through low levels of noise are difficult to recapture. "If you are listening through crackle," he says, "even if you can repeat what is said, you can't remember it as well." By the same token, elderly people with a minor hearing problem may have to concentrate so much to pick up a voice that they forget the contents of the sentence...
When I was a boy (circa 1925), I believed Jimmy Walker was the greatest! He was from Greenwich Village; he was fast with a one-liner; he was a "con" man and a lousy mayor of New York. Now we have a repeat: Ed Koch...
Marie! Marie! Oh let me repeat that name a hundred times, a thousand times over; for three days now it has lived within me, oppressed me, set me afire. I am not writing to you, no, I am close beside you. I see you, I hear you ... Eternity in your arms...