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...music. Applying knowledge of what a home music system should be able to do in order to reproduce music correctly to your study of the specs sheets can lead to good preliminary evaluations of equipment. Remember that frequency response accuracies are useful but that low distortion is vital. Look for the lowest possible distortion in all your components (under 1% total IM and harmonic is considered good today). And above all, use your ears as the final acid test of any component, and especially when contemplating purchase of a speaker...
...special committee will concentrate on three vital areas of abuse: disclosure and control of campaign funds; nomination procedures; status of local city and town political committees...
...strongest effects of this book of essays is a sense that, aggravating and obscure as methodology may be, it has a place in modern sociology that is not only inescapable but vital for those who want to talk about what happens in society. One bit of evidence for this is Riesman's almost casual assumption that the American character has altered radically, and several authors take violent issue with the subtitle of The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character. As Ralf Dahrendorf explains, "Comte Alexis de Tocqueville and Mr. David Riesman share a number of their questions...
Riesman has brought something very persuasive to his view of American national character--the idea that we live in a period of change, that the change is inevitable, and that it is the sacrifice we make for progress. Each element is vital: change because it is comforting to think that things are worse, or more difficult for us than our ancestors. How pleasant for the intellectual to realize that everyone about him is more conformist than their parents, and that modern taste is more subject to opinion leaders than ever before. Riesman did not discover conformity, but he gave...
Standard & Poor's business is collecting and publishing the vital financial statistics of U.S. businesses and passing judgment on each company's worth as an investment. Even to the biggest of U.S. corporate giants, a favorable Standard & Poor's rating is a matter of crucial importance. S. & P.'s professional opinions carry near-Biblical weight with untold thousands of investors-and particularly with the amateurs who have thronged into the market since World War II. So avidly do they seek S. & P. counsel that in the last dec ade annual sales of the company...