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Word: sound (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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After all, "Boola Boola" does sound a lot like some of Reagan's old speeches...

Author: By Neil A. Cooper, | Title: Bush League Scandals | 8/8/1989 | See Source »

...uses the same digital recording technology that produces the clear tone of the compact disc. And just as the CD sounds better than a regular LP, a DAT tape is a quantum advance from a standard audio tape. The DAT tape is also conveniently small: 2 3/4 in. long, compared with 4 in. for an ordinary cassette. But better sound will initially come at a high price: DAT recorders are expected to run at least $1,000, and prerecorded tapes could cost more than $25. The recorders, along with DAT tapes of everyone from Mozart to | Madonna, could start appearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Sweet Harmony | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

...that some stains cannot be easily scrubbed away. Exxon said last week that it will have to spend $1.28 billion, or ten times as much as initial projections, to clean up the 11 million gal. of crude oil that the supertanker Exxon Valdez spewed into Alaska's Prince William Sound last March. The surprising estimate, which did not take into account potential penalties or lawsuit settlements, made the Alaskan disaster one of the most expensive industrial accidents ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The High Cost Of Catastrophe | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

...such modest goals sound like crazed radicalism? Because, a male observer is forced to admit, men and male-dominated institutions are exceedingly timid about revolution. Perhaps, however, Hochschild's prickly, irritating, distressingly reasonable book can help us to see the next step. The call used to be for soft-center males, studs who could cry. That was silly. Men don't cry. They brood, and mutter, and sulk, sometimes for hours on end, while on TV the Red Sox are slowly dying. That's fine, the author is saying, but not while there are children to be bathed, dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Myth of Male Housework | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

...theory, it is laudable that A Common Destiny resists the easy summary that leads to TV-style sound bites. But there is also the danger that the report may be unjustly ignored. The enduring value of A Common Destiny can be found in the mountain of evidence it marshals to rebut a series of debilitating myths about the true state of contemporary race relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unfinished Business | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

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