Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...private session yesterday, House Speaker George Keverian '53 and his leadership team discussed withholding an estimated $600 million in local aid to rescue the state from its fiscal crisis, said Gibson, who attended the meeting...
...House rejected a proposal that day by Speaker George Keverian '53 for a 50 percent increase in the capital gains tax, even after the speaker agreed not to make the increase retroactive for this fiscal year. After the 94-64 defeat, Keverian (D-Everett) retracted his $1 billion tax package from the floor...
There are two ways to generate an antinoise wave. The analog approach, first developed in the 1930s using vacuum-tube technology, works something like a seesaw. A mechanism drives a loud speaker that pushes the air when incoming sound waves rise and pulls it back when the sound waves fall. Alternatively, antinoise waves can be created digitally, using a signal processor to convert incoming sound waves into a stream of numbers. Given those numbers, computers can quickly calculate the frequency and amplitude of the mirror-image waves. Those specifications are then fed to a conventional speaker and broadcast into...
After announcing Moawad's murder on television in a voice breaking with emotion, Prime Minister Selim Hoss, an American-trained economist who has survived several assassination attempts, worked with Hussein Husseini, the speaker of the parliament, to reconvene the legislature and select a President. "Each one of us is Rene Moawad," said Husseini. "We all have the absolute duty to pursue the peace process until the salvation of the country...
...country, including Communist Party gatherings, people poured out their disgust, demanding that their former leaders be investigated and, if necessary, tried and punished. Inevitably, perhaps, the time for retribution had come. During one of the almost nightly mass rallies in Leipzig, the mood was summed up by a young speaker who condemned the regime, shouting "You treated us like a herd of cattle...