Word: soundproofing
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After weeks under a close police watch, a frightened Esposito finally directed investigators to the soundproof bunker. Authorities who later questioned the girl said she told them she was forced into the room after refusing sexual advances from Esposito. Katie "told us she was screaming when she was thrust into this," said Detective Lieut. Dominick Varrone...
Animal experimentation is not the solution to AIDS, or to any other illness afflicting our society. In studies of highly social and intelligent chimpanzees--who have been both crammed two to a cage measuring 22" by 22" and isolated in the semidarkness in barren, soundproof, oven-like chambers at the SEMA laboratory outside Washington, D.C.--the animals infected with the HIV virus have not actually become sick with AIDS...
...house with a soundproof basement, he recorded 19 Singable Songs for the Very Young. He borrowed $4,000 to have the records pressed and sold them from his Toyota station wagon. His concerts for children became local legends, with scalpers selling tickets for $300 apiece. "I'd play to 1,200 children in the public library; then that night I'd go to the coffeehouse to play, and there'd be 30 people. I got the message...
...phones kept working. We worked out systems for calling one another, three rings, hang up, then three more rings. The person called never spoke first. To take our telephones into more soundproof rooms, we extended phone lines with lamp wire. At safer hours we slipped up and down corridors to meet together in different apartments. On the hall floor outside my apartment, I positioned a piece of broken mirror against the wall so that the entire length of the corridor was visible from my partly open door. It was a group rule that everyone checked the mirror before stepping into...
CWT/Landvest has already made concessions to its neighbors, notably by offering to replace the windows in neighboring Waverly Hall with soundproof glass. Even antidevelopment City Councillor Alice K. Wolf acknowledged, "With the physical environment, they have made some compromises and done a good...