He tolerated this for a while, but eventually he leaned forward and pressed the Stop button on the tape recorder.

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The batteries died on her tape recorder, so they made a date to finish the interview later that week, which turned into dinner for two.

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As they listened to the audio, jurors also watched a computerized simulation of the plane's flight path based on a recovered flight data recorder as the events on the tape were unfolding.

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Then she switched on a tape recorder and let the entrepreneur talk through the problems for two hours.

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Jared Falcon has been in and out of institutions his whole life, but managed to write and record more than 300 songs in the late '80s on a shoddy tape recorder.

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He began collecting material on a tape recorder when he was 20, starting with the Seeger family's maid, Elizabeth Cotten, a self-taught guitarist.

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She sets her video camera and tape recorder, tools of the trade, on the passenger seat and blushes when she notices the boxed porta-potty in the backseat.

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But by using compression software and getting Galileo to record data on its tape-recorder for later transmission, almost all of the probe's objectives have still been achieved.

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The central thread is interviews, recorded with shopkeepers and residents on an old-fashioned tape recorder.

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Once a tape recorder had been switched on, Jensen, McCormick, and Dalio discussed the possible promotion of an internal candidate to a senior-management role.

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