Word: amounted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...computer men have been able to build only a slight amount of learning ability into a few experimental machines. But they have great plans for the future. Dr. S. Gill of Ferranti Ltd. (British computer manufacturer) said that machines that can really learn will have vast abilities. They will compose music, their style of composition varying with the kinds of music they have been "listening to." They will operate airway control systems. They may even perform surgical operations, watching their own incisions and stitching with television eyes, keeping track automatically of the patient's blood pressure, respiration...
...Allen thinks most of the particles come from the sun, shot out by eruptions and trapped by the earth's magnetic field. The strength of the radiation belt is probably variable, like the amount of water in a leaky bucket that is filled at irregular intervals. When the sun is quiet, the particles in the belt gradually leak down to the atmosphere and disappear perhaps causing the aurora. The belt grows weaker and weaker until a new transfusion of particles from the sun makes it strong again...
Cockcroft was especially impressed with the amount of money and manpower the Russians are allocating to the fusion-power drive. Admitted Cockcroft: "The Russians are at about the same stage as ourselves, but they are working on a much broader front. They are faced with the same problems, but they work three or four times faster...
Harsh Penalty? On a long-term stock profit, an investor must pay a capital gains tax of up to 25%. This means that if he sells, and pays the tax, he lessens his borrowing power by the amount of the tax and thus has less to invest, unless he can find another stock that will go up enough to make up for the tax loss. With shares already selling at record highs, finding such a stock is difficult. Result: investors are locked into their stocks, thus keeping shares off the market, and forcing up prices...
...younger men. They must have an in- terest in the country whose language they are teaching." When these men move on to higher levels, Rogers advocates a system of rotation, whereby every faculty member, regardless of rank, will be required to teach an elementary course for a specific amount of time. The quality of teaching would then be raised and the teaching fellows would not be mired in the lower levels...