Word: approaches
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...dozen people were arrested during the first week, but the number is likely to grow. A test program at the San Ysidro border crossing near San Diego has resulted in more than 1,000 arrests since it began in December 1986. The national program will adopt the San Diego approach, in which suspects are charged with both illegal importation of drugs, a felony, and simple possession, a misdemeanor. Most are then offered a deal: if they plead guilty to the misdemeanor, the Government will drop the felony count and the magistrate will grant deferred prosecution, which means that the suspect...
...party president under pressure from Washington. But he remains a key figure in ARENA, and he drew large enthusiastic crowds at campaign rallies. D'Aubuisson's successor is Alfredo Cristiani, a graduate of Washington's Georgetown University and scion of a wealthy coffee-growing family. His soft-spoken approach evidently convinced some Salvadorans that the party had moderated its views, and many were further swayed by ARENA's slick advertising campaign, with the slogan "We'll change for the better." Said Cristiani after the vote: "Our goal isn't to be a systematic opposition to President Duarte, but his government...
...compete with El Salvador's state bank and to return to private hands the country's major export industries. There is widespread speculation that ARENA will use its new power in the Assembly to stop investigations of human-rights abuses. Above all, ARENA has vowed to take a tougher approach to defeating El Salvador's guerrillas, going so far as to declare that it may send home some 55 U.S. military advisers who have worked to improve the Salvadoran army's dismal human-rights record...
...build this system, de Kleer has spent ten years codifying what he calls "qualitative" calculus that will provide the language to build "common-sense physics." The problem with common sense is that it requires the computer to skip nimbly among many different perspectives in order to find the approach that best fits a problem. The computer must be able to simultaneously maintain the assumptions underlying these different perspectives, and de Kleer says that this, again, will require massive processing power. He looks to parallel processing for the power to run his systems. "Running my applications on a serial supercomputer would...
...look much beyond the next week," Wayne says. "We approach every race as a big race...