Word: trumpets
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...delegates from 180 nations will meet in Cairo for another go at the population problem. Advocacy groups and bureaucrats alike trumpet this conference as a breakthrough because it will focus on women's issues. In U.N.-speak, however, that translates into a catalog of desiderata ranging from appeals to eliminate sexual stereotypes to calls for men to do more housework -- nice-sounding proposals that are irrelevant to population control in many of the traditional cultures of the Third World...
WASHINGTON -- After taking heat from human-rights groups for granting China MFN status, the U.S. is planning a low-key, go-slow approach to closer ties with VIETNAM. The new U.S. liaison office in Hanoi will quietly help firms seeking business but will not organize showy trade missions or trumpet Vietnam's economy as the next big Asian opportunity...
Born in New Orleans, Blanchard grew up saturated in music. His father was an insurance man and aspiring opera singer, and his early career paralleled that of Wynton Marsalis, another hometown musician. Blanchard studied composition and classical and jazz trumpet at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, then moved to New York City, where he landed one of jazz's most enviable jobs: trumpeter in the Art Blakey Band...
...voice box, or larynx, then resonates inside the head to produce a tone. "Outside of the head it might sound like a trumpet mouthpiece with no trumpet," he explains...
...Soul disc mainly features tracks that werereleased during the 60s R&B explosion, and whilemany of the tracks on here are great (check outthe thick, laid-back groove featured on southAfrican trumpeter Hugh Masekela's "Grazing in theGrass'" the best track on the disc--from theopening deeply grooved cowbell to Masekela'sinfectiously funky trumpet lines, this songgrooves hard) many others are uninspiring anduninteresting...