Word: actualizations
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Because of these and other examples of the Academy's customary inconsistency, predicting the actual winners is notoriously difficult. But fools rush in, and our panel of experts herewith offer their prognostications (see below...
DEAR AMERICA: LETTERS HOME FROM VIETNAM (HBO, debuting April 3, 9 p.m. EST). Actual letters from service members, read by such actors as Robert De Niro and Robin Williams and illustrated with footage...
...forth in Crisis is the authors' contention that at least 3 million Americans are infected with the AIDS virus. Masters and his associates arrived at that figure by a fairly straightforward calculation: if there are 50 to 100 symptomless carriers of the AIDS virus for every case of actual disease, as was first noted in 1985, and there were 45,000 cases of AIDS in the U.S. in late 1987, then one would now expect about 3,375,000 people (75 X 45,000) to be infected with the virus...
...Although actual home ownership costs have fallen from a peak in 1982, the cost of owning a typical "starter" home last year accounted for 32 percent of the average annual income of first-home buyers. This figure is up 50 percent from the 1970s, according to the study...
...lighter stroke becomes a five or six. These numbers can then be manipulated to filter out "noise" and bring out hidden features in the text. For example, all the pixels with high numbers can be changed to zeros to make them disappear, while the lighter pixels representing parts of actual letters can be darkened by boosting their values from five...