Word: soundness
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...delivered two or three sentences on each topic, in rapid fire. For each word, I would come up with two or three sentences that were informative, interesting and at best a little bit fun to listen to. I worked it. Then on the next interview, I handed them a sound bite. I essentially trained myself in sound bites. They can't edit it; they don't need to edit it. It's self-contained. You just slot it right in. It fits in, and it makes you smile. And so, when that started, they kept coming back. And they never...
...sort-of central bank whose charter Congress had allowed to expire the year before. City nearly went under in the Panic of 1837 but was bailed out by the country's richest man, fur magnate John Jacob Astor. Astor's associate Moses Taylor built City into a bulwark of sound finance--big capital reserves, stingy lending standards--that bankrolled the Union during the Civil War and easily withstood the first postwar financial panic...
...daily sound bites, visit time.com/quotes
...know this is going to sound like a cliché, but it's all of them, because I give them all the same effort. They're like my children...
...doing this? Oh, about a zillion reasons. Digital TV makes possible better sound and a sharper picture as well as something called multicasting, which means that--because digital signals are more compact than analog ones--single stations will be able to broadcast multiple channels of programming all at once. The switchover will also free up a lot of space on the overcrowded airwaves. Some of it will be used for an improved post--Sept. 11, post-Katrina emergency-broadcast system (yes, even better than those color bars and that weirdly aggravating tone). The rest of it went to the highest...