Word: acing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After the war, Turing returned to Cambridge, hoping to pick up the quiet academic life he had intended. But the newly created mathematics division of the British National Physical Laboratory offered him the opportunity to create an actual Turing machine, the ACE or Automatic Computing Engine, and Turing accepted. What he discovered, unfortunately, was that the emergency spirit that had short-circuited so many problems at Bletchley Park during the war had dissipated. Bureaucracy, red tape and interminable delays once again were the order of the day. Finding most of his suggestions dismissed, ignored or overruled, Turing eventually left...
...although he also lost over the weekend, Harvard ace James Blake kept his No. 1 singles ranking in the country...
...climactic match of the day was the No. 1 contest between Crimson ace Blake and his old junior tennis rival, Brian Vahally. Blake, a returning All-American and the current No. 1-ranked collegiate singles player, was the favorite...
...According to a letter to members of the American Council on Education (ACE) yesterday by council president Stanley O. Ikenberry, colleges and universities only recently became able to join...
...Ikenberry wrote in the letter that many member institutions of the ACE had expressed concerns about the problem of sweatshop labor in factories producing college insignia apparel. He suggested they might find their solution by affiliating with...