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I can see why many people would not want to wear the 'stereotypical' hearing aids of the bygone era, such as the hearing tube that looked like a trumpet coming out of your ear, or the wires and cords - but a lot of men nowadays have hearing loss. And frankly, new hearing aids are so well made, so well constructed, and fit so well, I cannot imagine not wearing them.

George Kennedy

As always, customers are reminded to treat all downed wires as energized and are urged to avoid downed wires or areas with tree limbs on wires.

Frank Poirot

We'll finally, maybe, start to see the extinction of wires in the home entertainment network.

John Hull

You can see all the wires are hanging down underneath this section.

Sherry Crane

[Power was restored on the south side of town more quickly, because most of the lines are underground, the mayor said.] That is very easy, ... You don't have poles and wires to fix ... I am always the last one (to get electricity back), and I am the mayor. That is because I live in an area with a lot of trees.

Houssaye

We would like to make sure people remove all the lights and wires from their trees because that is not something we can mulch into the environment. And no nails or stands.

Pat Raglin

I was kind of worried that I wasn't going to be able to do it. But once I took a look at it, it wasn't that tough. These are the four wires that I need.

Tim Schneider

We believe that they're way off on the cost to pay for the poles, wires, land and equipment, and they're way off on the cost to provide power for the area. And somebody has to pay for that.

Jann Taber

Cable is still a small piece of the pie. The predominant way people will be connecting, even in five years, will be over plain old copper phone wires.

Garry Betty

You don't actually want to cut the wires.

Andy Black

The doctor was using it on a lady, and it wouldn't work, so he had to splice the wires while she was lying on the table dying. Then they wheeled in another person who needed the same machine.

Stacy Sullivan

Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day. . .

Janet Frame

We had to have five sets of wires lifted. We didn't have to shut anyone's power off, but it was tight.

Greg Engstrom

The college shouldn't buy me a new restaurant, but the college should pay for all the stuff I had in place, like wires in the walls, because that kind of stuff doesn't go bad.

Nick Powers

We had to close the road here because primary wires are involved. Edison will be out to take care of it.

Russell Perkins

I think from the dealers standpoint, the bottom line is that its nothing they're happy about. For the retailers here in Vermont, it's just about their cost. Their cost at the terminals is going up. I mean all you have to do is read the paper or look at the wires, and globally we're at a position where the demand for fuel keeps growing.

Shane Sweet

There was no storm, no nothing -- just bang. We were told there wouldn't be any of these problems because of the underground wires and the transformers they were using.

Jim Mccarroll

We are just having a lot of poles down and wires down. We haven't had a lot of flooding. We have had a couple of requests for sand bags.

Bonnie Curtis

The wiring networks (in apartments) have this marvelous advantage to them, because you have a bunch of people with wires beginning in their apartments, and they all converge in the basement.

David Goodman

I think we have a PR issue, in that people do not think the utility industry has great significant technical challenges. College graduates look at us and see poles and wires, and don't realize there are things like automation, computer control and sophisticated asset management systems out there.

Chris Root

Because this issue, above almost all others, touches the trip wires- or the third rails - of our politics.

John Nichols

I saw the tree on fire, and then all of a sudden the transformer exploded, and as it exploded the light was just all over the sky. Then there was more fire, and then the utility poles started snapping off. The wires were coming down. I thought I was going to die. I was outside, and the wires were coming down everywhere and all the sparks and fire. I started to run like hell.

Marcia Rogers

We're working in the dark; we don't have an inventory list. We had an elevator guy standing waist-deep in sewage-contaminated water, blowing on the wires so we could short-circuit the elevator and get it working.

John Clements

President Arafat and the Palestinian Authority do not want to divide the city, do not want to build a wall, do not want to put up barbed wires.

Marwan Kanafani

The great, great thing is no tubes or wires. He's unattached.

Nicole Draper

He believed that there had to be a message to start with, that in the beginning was the Word. Otherwise, he said, "all you have is a lot of wires and lights in a box."

Alexander Kendrick

They were trying to pull the flagpole back off the lines. I heard a loud pop that sounded like a firecracker, and I went running because the power lines fell. They were both lying on the ground, and two women were trying to get to them to get them away from the wires.

James Snider

The whole scene, it was basically a helicopter pilot's nightmare, because everything was basically wires or tower.

Dave Cooper

It's great to be able to sit somewhere and work without having any wires attached, no nothing attached, but you have that risk that it comes back to.

Richard Rushing

I was just as upset when I saw the inside of this building as I was when I saw the damage in my own neighborhood after the hurricane. It looked like a funnel came down inside the building. There was insulation, ceiling tiles, wires and other debris everywhere. It just broke my heart.

Jo Gilbeaux

[Verdine White would soar aloft on wires. Johnson's drum kit was welded to a riser which rotated through 360 degrees with him still flailing away- a stunt the band devised after watching Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer spin his piano.] I had a lot of fun doing it, ... Never got sick. And I'd do it again.

Ralph Johnson

Tire debris and wheel shrapnel resulted in damage to the No. 2 engine, puncture of three fuel tanks, and severance of several hydraulic lines and electrical wires. Additionally, a large hole was torn in the top wing skin which covers the wheel well area.

James King

Right off the bat we talk about stings and wires and traps. I'm not happy with that at all, especially when you're dealing with a 24-year old girl. It's not nice.

William Ginsburg

The whole scene [was] a helicopter pilot's nightmare, because everything was basically wires or tower.

Dave Cooper

The bulk of the damage was due to tree limbs coming down on wires, and Anne Arundel was simply where we had more tree limbs come down.

Linda Foy

A mechanic is going to be able to look for signs of water damage that won't appear on a title document or a piece of paper. Things like water levels in the engine well, rusting wires. He can look inside your ventilation system and see if there's any debris.

Larry Gamache

We're having to restring wires, as always, ... it's not like you can focus all your resources in one area.

Brian Phillips

We have taken care of all the hazard calls in regard to wires down. Those have all been assessed. We know where they are. This will speed distribution repairs going forward.

Lloyd Coker

We're not seeing the widespread damage you would expect with a warning like that. Addison got whacked pretty good. I'm not sure whether the storm just collapsed over them. We've got a lot of trees and wires down.

Tim Marshall

It's about not having to run wires into every room. It's about being able to bring in a little device that you attach to your phone line that basically takes your Internet access and makes it available to every room in your house without wires.

Carl Howe

It's an induced coma to help him manage the pain level and so he can't pull out the wires or anything, and to help him fight this.

Lydian Stubbs

They're activated by pulling -- which breaks a little valve or wire or something up there -- and if all of them that we find happen to have broken wires, then that's a pretty good indication that they were deployed.

Bob Benzon

It does make people more vulnerable. The wires aren't there to be seen. ... Wireless networks are much less secure.

Sarah Hicks

A lot of barns in those days had arrows painted on their roofs and other messages to let the pilots known they were still on course. And those guys used to joke that the early airplanes were made of sticks and wires.

Flora Balmer

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Cathy Baron Tamraz

We're getting a lot of live wires or wires in the backyards that are arcing on tree branches.

Jason Nelson

This extends the Internet to a world without wires and represents the first major deployment of integrated data, voice and video services under an Internet-based cellular infrastructure.

Don Listwin

Across the wires the electric message came: / `He is no better, he is much the same.'

Alfred Austin

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Edwin Way Teale

While the damage that we have been seeing is far less severe than on the main pump wires, we're nevertheless seeing enough that we think it's a prudent step to go back and deal with these wires to a certainty.

Eliot Brenner

They cut a bundle of wires. The supposition is that by cutting them together they created a short that triggered the circuit breakers.

Fred Miller