Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recorded by a computer and played back with a laser beam, offers brighter highs and truer lows than conventional analog recording techniques, and eliminates compression and distortion as well. The CD medium has several other practical advantages: most players can be programmed to select cuts in any sequence or repeat a favorite indefinitely; the discs never wear out, since only light touches their surface, and with up to 74 minutes of music on the one usable side, they never have to be flipped over. Finally, they are as easily stored as tapes, yet offer amenities (liner notes, opera librettos) similar...
...package included a 15-month freeze, starting July 1, 1984, on fees charged by doctors who accept Medicare payments. During that period, any doctor who increases his charges to Medicare patients could be subject to a $2,000 fine. Repeat violators could be disqualified from receiving payments from the program for up to five years...
...week whether the Republican Party platform should call for "parity" or "superiority," Reagan answered that he would prefer "we not ask for superiority.") They accuse the Administration of having presented deliberately lopsided proposals in nuclear arms talks in order to prevent any agreement from being reached. Soviet officials tirelessly repeat the argument that the new Pershing II missiles that NATO began deploying in West Germany last November are first-strike weapons capable of reaching Moscow in eight minutes (in fact, the new missiles cannot reach the Soviet capital from their present launching sites...
Yeats wished for his girl a sense of ceremony and tradition in A Prayer for My Daughter. I'd repeat that wish for you, as long as you did not turn into a snob, like Yeats. In This Side of the Truth, Dylan Thomas, probably hoping to protect himself, wished that his son Llewelyn would hold all judgments in abeyance. "Each truth," he wrote, "each lie, dies in unjudging love." That I will not wish...
...Weinberger's speech November 18 in Memorial Hall, he was repeatedly interupted by hecklers protesting the Reagan Administration's military policy in Central America. Although Weinberger was able to finish his speech, he was forced to repeat himself several times and some members of the audience said the were unable to hear him because of the heckling...