It is not as if Bernie Ecclestone's £617m or my puny £1.6m is made at the expense of the public purse, or unwillingly extracted from the private purses of school cleaners or speech therapists.
But the strike is a serious setback for the Bush administration as it tries to persuade the world to focus on the positives of the American occupation, on falling crime and new schools, on cleaner streets and freer speech.
It can be observed that the gammatonegram with non-linearity plots for babble and restaurant noises provide cleaner spectral information which is important for speech recognition.
President Obama's speech continues US efforts towards a cleaner economy.
Noise-canceling models also reduce any dull, consistent roar around you, like airplane engines, vacuum cleaners and presidential campaign speeches.
In his March speech on energy security, Mr. Obama used "clean" or "cleaner" 24 times in the context of energy, "renewable" eight times and "alternative" nine times.
We compiled two ensembles of sounds containing representative examples of vocalizations (animal calls, human speech, bird songs) and sustained ambient noises (wind, vacuum cleaner, etc).
In Mr. Pataki's speech, he listed several steps the state has taken toward developing cleaner, alternative fuels.
†Others include nursing assistant, social worker, pharmacist, clinical and radiologic technologist, physical therapist, occupational therapist, speech therapist, managerial staff, clerk, educational and research staff, building maintenance staff, cleaner, nutritionist, and licensed cook.
Mr. Chen's long-anticipated inaugural speech today was almost an anticlimax, devoted mainly to calls for domestic reconciliation, cleaner politics and economic issues.
