Word: soundly
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While many professors feel that prohibiting mandatory retirement would allow healthy and sound individuals to continue teaching well into their 70s, they admit it would adversely affect higher learning in the long...
...four Scandinavian countries together reported a total of five exposure-related deaths. Nonetheless, the chill caused severe hardships. More than half of Denmark's 200 inhabited islands were cut off from the mainland. Icebreakers had to work day and night to free some 15 vessels from the frozen sound between Denmark and Sweden. Following a blizzard in the Swedish province of Skane, where temperatures dipped to -11 degrees, people were warned that they risked death if they ventured outdoors...
Frustrated by Reagan's immobility, the Vice President finally delivered a speech declaring bluntly what the battered President would not: the Administration had made serious mistakes. Afterward, congratulations poured in from Bush supporters around the country. At Hobe Sound, Fla., the Vice President's mother and sister had watched in approval. This time, they agreed, George did not sound like a cheerleader...
Callers will hear a noticeable improvement in transmission quality, AT&T promises. The current undersea cables are often overcrowded and frequently suffer from static. And satellite connections, which now carry about 60% of transatlantic phone calls, typically produce an echoey sound and an annoying half-second delay because signals must be sent 22,300 miles up to a communications satellite and back down again. Fiber-optic technology, by contrast, delivers a comparatively pure sound. The ultrathin glass fibers in the cable carry information on laser beams of light, which travel with virtually no susceptibility to electronic interference. Long-distance telephone...
Once his diverse audiences caught up with him, Leonard, 61, faced the inevitable problem of an encore. Everyone can relax. Bandits should fill the land with the sound of pages turning. It offers all the suspense, tough talk and local color that anyone could expect, plus a few surprises. Veteran fans may experience the uneasy feeling, toward the end of the book, that Leonard's characteristic hard-boiled fiction is turning a trifle runny inside, that one of the most unsparing chroniclers of U.S. lowlife shows signs of developing a social conscience. They may be right but, like everyone else...