Word: staticity
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...concern. Last week, the board of trustees did an about-face. In a report using words that it had once rejected vehemently, it declared that the shortage of doctors is reaching "alarming proportions," and called for "an immediate and unprecedented increase." It urged medical schools whose enrollments have remained static to figure out ways of admitting more students "in the light of national demand," also called on the five schools of osteopathy that are still independent to convert into regular medical schools...
Their decision to merge into a $2.7 billion-a-year telecommunications giant has brought International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. and the American Broadcasting Companies nothing but static. The Federal Communications Commission approved the merger last December, but only by a bitterly divided 4-to-3 margin that failed to silence objections from Congress and the Justice Department's Antitrust Division. As the clamor mounted, the FCC finally agreed in March to take another look...
...Sure." After running the Israeli tape through an electronic filtering process to eliminate static, Kersta chose 25 basic phonetic elements from the voice believed to be Nasser's, and the same elements from the CBS recording. These "phonemes," as they are called, included such sounds as ah, ee, eye, o and yeh, which are common to both English and Arabic. Words from the tapes containing the phonemes were then fed into a spectrograph, which electronically translated them into signals that activated a stylus...
...share certain concerns and have advocated in common the issues of curriculum reform, increased faculty interaction, and participation in policy decisions. The activists seem motivated by the conviction that their opinions are not only relevant but important, and by the unwillingness to accept the educational process as a static system which they cannot question. Their gripes are no longer personal but public and well-articulated. Discussion is satisfying for a time, but it is action which they seek...
...move will undoubtedly spark some static in the pop LP market, where the biggest buyers are teenagers, who care more about money than modulation. But it will hardly ruffle classical buffs, who have long ago switched to dual channels. The long-term trend is unmistakable: like the 78-r.p.m. disk and the 10-in. LP before it, the mono LP appears to be headed for its final spin...