Word: alan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them was the 19th century mathematician George Boole, who devised a system of algebra, or mathematical logic, that can reliably determine if a statement is true or false. The other was Alan Turing, who pointed out in the 1930s that, with Boolean algebra, only three logical functions are needed to process these "trues" and "falses";-or, in computer terms...
...precisely because Begelman had rescued Columbia from the brink of bankruptcy and turned it into a moneymaker that its directors last December decided to reinstate him. A vocal dissenter had been Alan Hirschfield, president of Columbia's parent, Columbia Pictures Industries; the two men seemed formally reconciled last week, and Hirschfield spent the week in Hollywood talking with Begelman about future plans. But the Columbia directors were scheduled to meet again this week, and there was speculation that they might reconsider their decision, particularly since Columbia stock has fallen to 15% from 20% in December, before the affair burst into...
...hunted official corruption in both parties. Despite Marston's protests that the inquiry into Philadelphia-area wrongdoing may be sabotaged by his ouster, the whole brouhaha almost certainly guarantees forceful pursuit of the probe to its end. That assignment will be carried out by Assistant U.S. Attorney Alan Lieberman, who did most of Marston's actual courtroom work, and hard-driving FBI Agent Neil Welch, who is rated the most effective bureau field commander in the country...
...better come out, we know who you are!" bellowed the FBI agent standing outside the door to a $130-a-day suite at the smart Innisbrook resort complex at Tarpon Springs, Fla. So ended a two-week hunt for the elusive Alan Abrams, the bail-jumping Boston commodity-options con man (TIME, Jan. 30) who, it is charged, under the alias "James Carr" swindled U.S. investors out of as much as $75 million...
DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH: THE BIRTH OF THE PRISON by Michel Foucault; translated by Alan Sheridan Pantheon; 333 pages...