Word: aims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like wary boxers who had learned they could be hurt, Britain and Argentina traded cautious punches last week around the Falkland Islands. The military action was restrained: both sides drew blood, but neither tried to aim a knockout blow in their South Atlantic confrontation. The reason: there were continuing prospects for a diplomatic resolution of the six-week crisis...
...British would establish a number of bridgeheads on West Falkland before attacking the eastern island. The final aim is to limit casualties while creating an air, sea and land encirclement of the territory's capital of Port Stanley and the lesser port of Darwin...
PUFF and ONCOCIN are brainchildren of SUMEX-AIM (Stanford University Medical Experimental Computer-Artificial Intelligence in Medicine). SUMEX is an interlocking of two sophisticated computer facilities at Stanford in California and Rutgers University in New Jersey, funded by the National Institutes of Health. Half the transcontinental system's capacity is devoted to development of an artificial intelligence for diagnostic medicine. At the moment, SUMEX's two bi-coastal computers also link 20 research projects in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Australia. Says Saul Amarel, chairman of the Rutgers department of computer science: "The purpose of SUMEX...
...from an attempt at an Ivy League accent, which turns him into a male chauvinist prig. But let the blame fall where it truly belongs: on a scenario by William Hanley that is without persuasive incident or dialogue, direction by Fielder Cook that is without texture or viewpoint. The aim here was obviously to do something elegant and up-market for television. The result is a bloodless bore on a screen of any size. -By Richard Schickel
When, with 12 minutes left in the game, Dartmouth attack man Steve Liet man took aim onan open goal with his team leading by one and intent on putting the game out of reach--Crimson goalie Tim Pendergast had abandoned the crease in an unsuccessful attempt to bat down a pass--a Harvard loss seemed inevitable. Lietman, however missed the shot, hitting the goal's left stanchion and opening the door for Harvard's final surge...