71.   Music, which is now used as little more than background noise in games, will be used to provide tension, much as it does in movies.

72.   Mischa has trouble filtering out background noise, and Bolden said that she had been fighting with school officials to pay for hearing-aid amplifiers.

73.   Now it seems poised to grow from background noise to a constant, rasping subtheme bound to climax in the next fight over a Supreme Court appointment.

74.   On Sunday, Secretary of State Colin Powell treated the reports as background noise.

75.   One moment, the background noise was a meaningless blur.

76.   Patti Smith is on the telephone from her home in New York, and the background noise alone is a window on her world.

77.   Remastering goes only so far, and then the process of removing background noise begins to purge the music as well.

78.   Programmability may also help reduce background noise, though that is not accepted by all audiologists.

79.   Schizophrenics are sometimes hypersensitive to minor background noises that others tune out.

80.   Sirens seem to have become nearly constant background noise.