Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decision. She didn't want to look back later and "wish I went to college." Her first English paper was on her coach Bela Karolyi. "It was supposed to be descriptive, and I know him very well," explains Retton. "I got good comments on it." That doesn't sound like a 10, but close enough...
Nothing quite compares to the feeling of walking over the ground strewn with apples. The sound of apples crushing underneath your feet as you walk up to a tree and start pulling off one Red Delicious after another, a red ladder (probably planted there by the orchard owner to make it look more quaint) leaning against an apple tree, lugging half a bushel of apples back...
...sound underneath the look may remind the uninitiated of the sound-track music that usually accompanies movie scenes of airplanes landing at palm-lined airports: easy rhythm, heavy percussion, peppy horns. But Discos CBS, a division of CBS Records International, has begun signing up merengue bands, and there are indications the sound is getting slicker. Bands led by Bonny Cepeda and Wilfrido Vargas are experimenting with synthesizers as a way to bring the music to a wider audience. "The great thing about Americans is that if you show them how to do a dance, they...
...record sales into decline. A CD stores music in digital form in some 15 billion microscopic pits on its aluminum surface. As the CD spins inside its player at up to 500 r.p.m., a laser scans the pits and beams their information to a computer chip for conversion into sound. The true significance of the optical disc lies in its data-storage capacity. A disc 4.7 in. in diameter can store the equivalent of 250,000 pages of typewritten information. So far, the CDs generally can be used only to retrieve data | imprinted on the disc at the factory...
Despite all the sound and fury over Senate control, a few politicians and pundits wonder whether a Democratic majority would really make such a tremendous difference. "The stakes in November are not all that high," says Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont. "After all, Reagan has passed most of his major legislation. All this heavy talk about who gets to run the Senate is overblown...