1.   Washington, President Kennedy has been heard to remark ironically, is a city of southern efficiency and northern charm.

2.   The opportunity to be with other Patois speakers and to both hear and use Patois is obviously critical.

3.   I can hear to now.

4.   And so one girl reported what she heard to a dean at their school, McKinley Intermediate in the Bay Ridge area.

5.   And the chorus of guffaws could be heard all the way to San Francisco.

6.   Around midnight, though, after several hours of calm, a rumble of shells could be heard to the north of the capital.

7.   At a House Rules subcommittee hearing to show how technology could be used in the legislative process, officials across the country were linked to Washington by teleconference equipment.

8.   Ayala came in and quickly restored order with three pitches heard all the way to the Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest.

9.   But she did recall how disappointed she had been with what she had heard to that point.

10.   Few if any objections have been heard to any of those projects.