Word: amplifyer
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The job is enormous and complicated. In the Loop, Chicago's downtown area, tall office buildings contain and amplify urban sounds like echo chambers so that the din occasionally reaches 90 decibels, enough to cause permanent damage to hearing in 10% of the people who might be exposed to...
The White House insisted, with much justification, that it must take action when it feels that a law has been violated. "How would you explain to people that you elected not to enforce the law?" asked one presidential aide. Yet the law in this case was not necessarily all that...
"Some others sound pollute the atmosphere with blaring music from open windows, amplify their rhetoric in public parks, shriek their calls to action over bull horns and sound trucks within the groves of academe, repetitively spreading private-and usually very mane-doctrines," he said.
Confrontation may arise from a mistaken perception of the posture of an adversary. Such a mistake can lead to a failure to appreciate the risks and consequences of probing for advantages or testing the limits of toleration. We believe that this was involved to some degree in the events which...
The lack of specific information in the indictment, coupled with the Justice Department's refusal to amplify, has fueled the suspicions of skeptics, although some who initially dismissed the indictments as some mad joke now take them more gravely. In the New York Times, Tom Wicker argued that "if the...