Word: vocalisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ethics is all the rage in Washington these days, as Speaker of the House Jim Wright can testify. This week the House Ethics Committee will release a 450- page report summing up a ten-month investigation of Wright's alleged wrongdoing. A vocal minority of Republicans, led by G.O.P. whip Newt Gingrich, predict that the inquiry will result in Wright's censure, removal as Speaker or maybe even expulsion. But in the end he is likely to hang on to his job because this is an argument not about right and wrong but about the peculiar ethics rules...
...President's strident nationalism drew a sour reaction from his many critics. "Sarney declared war on the world today," said Fabio Feldman, a Congressman from Sao Paulo who is a vocal environmentalist. "He's trying to - rally public support around a discredited government." Feldman declared the Our Nature program itself "too academic and vague. It won't change a thing." Said another leading ecologist: "It is obvious that the intention of the program is not to save the Amazon but to appease foreign criticism...
...Radical Arms Troop, a singing group of six students who took part in the 1969 protests, drew cheers from the vocal audience for such lyrics as "ROTC, keeping all the people in slavery," and "It's the same bosses here as in Pretoria...Listen, Derek Bok, divest your racist stock...
Attempts by HRAAA's vocal minority on the Board to force a vote on divestment have also failed. After four years, the only substantial University response was a reform proposal which would make it more difficult for future independent candidates to be nominated...
Another biometric technique, voice verification, works by creating a digital picture of an individual's vocal tract. Bad colds or even Rich Little can not trip up the device, since it recognizes the physiological characteristics that produce speech, not sound or pronunciation. Using this device is as easy as saying "Open sesame." Such major corporations as Hertz and Martin Marietta rely on the technology to protect their computer systems, and these user- friendly voice analyzers could be especially attractive to homeowners and small businesses...