Word: adjustments
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...addition, the more than 9 million wage earners covered by contracts containing cost of living adjustment clauses will also feel a transitional pinch. COLAS automatically adjust earnings to help offset inflation, and many people have become accustomed to counting on those illusionary increases in their incomes...
...same time, certain aspects of thinking can be identified without encompassing the entire process. The ability to comprehend, to conceptualize, to organize and reorganize, to manipulate, to adjust-these are all parts of thought. So are the acts of pondering, rationalizing, worrying, brooding, theorizing, contemplating, criticizing. One thinks when one imagines, hopes, loves, doubts, fantasizes, vacillates, regrets. To experience greed, pride, joy, spite, amusement, shame, suspicion, envy, grief-all these require thought; as do the decisions to take command, or umbrage; to feel loyalty or inhibitions; to ponder ethics, self-sacrifice, cowardice, ambition. So vast is the mind...
...first question, then-Can a machine think?-is yes and no. A computer can certainly do some of the above. It can (or will soon be able to) transmit and receive messages, "read" typescript, recognize voices, shapes and patterns, retain facts, send reminders, "talk" or mimic speech, adjust, correct, strategize, make decisions, translate languages. And; of course, it can calculate, that being its specialty. Yet there are hundreds of kinds of thinking that computers cannot come close to. And for those merely intent on regarding the relationship of man to machine as a head-to-artificial-head competition, this fact...
...from former Boss Ronald Reagan, 71. The ex-National Security Adviser, who resigned in January after the controversy over his handling of gifts from a Japanese magazine, was simply trying his own hand after judging a local kite-flying contest on Sanibel Island, Fla. "Kites can relax you, can adjust you," says Allen, who is now a political consultant and think-tank associate. He thought his own kite looked like the Pentagon, "but with one more angle." Said he: "It represents the Administration's six-sided strategic defense modernization program. You could call it the Caspar Weinberger Special...
...never had that much trouble with my control before, and so I kept trying to adjust my release and my delivery when I just should have gone with what felt right," the senior mound artist said after the game. "Tomorrow afternoon in workout. I'm going to be throwing a lot so that, hopefully, I'll be prepared for the Ivies this weekend...