A-scale

In sound-level meters, a weighting network, widely used to measure the noise levels in buildings or communities. The A-scale provides meter readings that correlate better with subjective judgments of noise than do readings of sound pressure levels (which are also taken with a sound level meter, but without a weighting network).

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We propose that 1,000 colleagues from our administrative A-scale groups are at risk of dismissal or redundancy."

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They fell from 94 decibels--measured on the logarithmic A-scale used by industry to approximate the human ear--to 78 decibels.

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The 300 A-scale were used when the chickens had scenes with themselves.

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and make it harder to regroup in our recruiting." Twenty-one percent of Campbell's A-scale hires have been African American, 13 of 61, he says.

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The pact called for 1-year wage cuts of up to 2.9 percent for senior (A-scale) flight attendants and of less than 1 percent for less senior (B-scale) flight attendants, followed by wage increases in April 1994, January 1995, and January 1996 that would raise USAIR flight attendants' pay to industry standards.

Flight attendants settle at USAir

The accord also shortened to 3 years (previously, 5 years) the time it takes B-scale pilots to reach the pay of "A-scale" (more senior) pilots.

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