The study, finished this week, concluded there would be no major negative effects on land use, traffic, air quality, noise, public safety and the environment.

"It'd probably cut down on vibrations and noise," he said.

Let other places crack down on smoking, noise and cellphone use.

At the beginning of the 1920s and through to the 1930s, the thinking on noise was dominated by the radio engineers' concern with external static.

This was physical stuff, spinning him around, trying to do it quickly, but also trying to keep everything quiet to cut down on noise.

This sort of thing works best on steady noise.

Why isn't the Giuliani administration attacked for being soft on noise?

I'm not good on noise at the best of times.

Here we are, ten years later, and no revision to the existing legislation on noise has been made.

The building is floored with wooden blocks to cut down on noise.