Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uncertainty of what will follow the Shah becomes serious apprehension when one reads the Ayatullah's declaration that "the press will be free ... except for those articles that would be harmful to the nation" [Jan. 22]. The restrictions sound all too familiar and similar to those allegedly enforced by the oppressive regime the Ayatullah claims to lighten and improve. And who will decide what is harmful to the nation? The Ayatullah and his entourage...
...videotape recorders, or VTRS, which can be plugged into an ordinary TV set and record up to four hours of programming on a cassette for later viewing. Videodiscs are also used with standard TV sets, but they are like phonograph records that can "play" video images as well as sound. They cannot record TV shows but, like records, are sold pre-programmed with anything that can be shown on the tube: movies, concerts, how-to instructions in golf and cooking...
...than compete with the more expensive VTRS. They also hope to grab a share of the $2.4 billion a year that Americans currently lay out for movie admissions and the $3.5 billion they spend on records and tapes; when hooked up to a stereo system, videodiscs produce a better sound quality than regular records...
...cannot be played on Magnavox machines and vice versa. Concedes RCA Executive Vice President Herbert Schlosser: "Eventually one system will dominate." Magnavox uses smooth-surfaced plastic discs. To see a film, one places the disc on the machine's phonograph-like turntable; a laser beam picks up the sound and images, which are then played through the attached TV set. Some Magnavox discs play for 30 min. a side, but movies take 60 min. RCA's discs, which will all play for 60 min., are grooved like records, and a stylus is used to pick up the sound...
Both the men's and women's ski teams regularly finish in the bottom three of the ten Division I schools in the east. Now that may sound unimpressive, but consider the fact that Vermont, Dartmouth, Williams, Middlebury and New Hampshire, schools for whom skiing is as big as football is at Ohio State, are also in Division I. UVM recruiters regularly journey to lure so-called "squareheads" to their squads...