Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prospered. But not many. The eleven western provinces and territories, including the huge Tibetan and Xinjiang autonomous regions, with 300 million of China's 1 billion people, produced only 17% of the 1987 GNP of $293 billion. The ten provinces and municipalities in the east, with 360 million people, account for a remarkable...
Using a computer, Rivlin created "a microsimulation model" of the population to examine the cost and effects of various types of health financing plans until the year 2020 for people of means. She says her model took into account such personal characteristics as income, assets, pension rates and disabilities...
...form the optimal hedge [against higher prices], one may need to take into account both risks," she said...
...case a customer, apparently using a fictitious name, opened an account at Chicago's Northern Trust Bank and later deposited a $4,000 check drawn on an out-of-state bank. The customer could not withdraw the funds immediately because Northern Trust, like most banks, puts a hold on such a deposit for several days to see if the check will be returned for lack of funds. When the culprit came back in nine days, the check had not been returned, so the bank allowed a $4,000 withdrawal to be made. In this case, though, the check...
...tasks and problems. To develop such systems, a rebel generation of AI scientists believes that it is necessary to rebuild their field from the ground up. Their emphasis, says Philosopher Daniel Dennett of Tufts University, is on figuring out how people manage to accomplish the plain, everyday things that account for most human behavior, rather than on creating a mathematical model of the intellect, as an older generation of AI researchers have tried and failed...