Recently top executive David Donatelli showed a little appetite for getting loud and proud about HP.

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By complaining in his loud, military voice, Sir David has caused some improvements and a lot of embarrassment.

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"It sounded quite loud, and then the sound stopped, " David Luce, who lives 150 yards (137m) from the crash site, told the Buffalo News.

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Apps load quickly and smoothly, and it's got extra loud speakers for gaming without headphones (or for David Guetta, as was demonstrated to us).

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The murdered gay Ugandan activist David Kato, 42, is remembered by friends and colleagues as loud and proud.

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Pretty much everyone who was everyone (or no one) in the '60s has a cameo, from Lance Loud (of the proto-reality TV show "American Family") to David Weisman, director of "Ciao Manhattan" (1972), the seamy, quasi-biographical film about Sedgwick's druggy collapse in which she starred.

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David Cameron made his support for it clear in his first conference speech as party leader, and won loud applause.

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The plane was loud as it came in, as if for a takeoff rather than for a landing, said David Luce, who lives 300 feet from the crash site.

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Activated by pulling out a grenade-like pin and palming an embedded finger pad, the Armstar BodyGuard 9XI-HD01 sparks a loud and visible arc of electricity between its wrist-mounted taser spikes, a sight that inventor David Brown hopes will encourage would-be crooks to surrender.

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