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BRISLEY: Well, the airport fire station, Number 17, was notified very quickly with the ring-down (ph) line of a plane crashing into the maintenance building here on airport property.
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The impossibility of retaining a balance on this high pinnacle of moral valor, where circumstance, which is a commonplace and often material thing, decrees that the lights shall not be turned out with the ring-down of the curtain.
Beyond The Rocks A Love Story Elinor Glyn 1903
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Phillips detects gas leaks using a new device called a cavity ring-down spectrometer, which he puts in the trunk of his car so he can take measurements as he drives.
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Alarms evolved recently into the ring-down system whereby everybody in town gets to hear what's going on, be it bad, or not so bad.
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This scary scenario happened recently in Texas City, and because of the ring-down phone system, it had a happy ending.
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Alarms evolved recently into the ring-down system whereby everybody in town gets to hear what's going on, be it bad, or not so bad.
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And speaking of Galveston County, almost every city has the ring-down system now, and the emergency managers get the emergency message simultaneously.
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Arts and Sciences, received $192,528 to purchase three cavity ring-down spectroscopy systems.
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And in the spirit of modern times, where everything becomes obsolete in a matter of days, the ring-down system is now being improved upon, or so Clawson said.
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Since the first thing people do when they suspect an emergency is get on the phone - which quickly shuts down the local phone system - the folks who run the ring-down system seize all the incoming lines and send out the message, which only has to be said once to reach the multitudes.
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