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Word: ais (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Observe dashing Vice Presidential nominee AI Jr. '69, tall and handsome, the son of a senator. See tipper, bright and confident, with her pug-nose and shellacked hair. And look at their children--blond, glowing, pretty, stylish. The resilient Gore kids overcame adversity to beam and wave on national television. They'll never know the horror of frizzy hair or the burden...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Placed Under a Media Microscope | 7/28/1992 | See Source »

...began working on constructing an airport in T'ai-nan in Taiwan. There I heard of our loss at Midway. That's when I felt we might lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembrance Worries Crept over Me | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...artificial-intelligence researchers. M.I.T.'s Marvin Minsky, one of the field's pioneers, is downright hostile. Says he: "Penrose is O.K. when he talks about mathematics, but most of his evidence argues against his conclusions. As far as I can tell, he is just plain wrong." Stanford psychologist and AI researcher David Rumelhart is somewhat milder: "He defines intelligence too narrowly by saying it depends on consciousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ideas: Those Computers Are Dummies | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

...past year the city has encouraged the opening of "mini-hotels" for Vietnamese visitors. The managers are often enterprising city employees eager to make more money. Says Nguyen Cong Ai, vice chairman of the local People's Committee: "Our private economy is much stronger now. We are learning the lessons of the market. We want to cooperate with foreign cities, to be an open door for Vietnam." Metropolitan Saigon has a population of 3.9 million. The port itself and textile and garment manufacturing are the city's biggest industries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vietnam: A War on Poverty | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

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