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Good Logicians. In terms of human talent-"brainware" in the argot of computer men-Hammer believes Russian cyberneticists are often better logicians than their U.S. counterparts. However, they are oriented toward the oretical problems. At the big Soviet training institutes, students concentrate very little on the standard international computer language for commerce, known as COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language). Instead, they drill in ALGOL and FORTRAN, the two major scientific languages...
...visit to a local OTB parlor. They emerged unscathed, simply by not placing a bet. Demarest was not always so steel-willed. As a member of TIME'S London bureau in the late 1950s, Demarest closely followed the fortunes of a horse named Four Flusher (gambling argot for cheater), which was jointly owned by a few bureau staffers. "Out of loyalty," Demarest says, "I bet on the horse when I might not have otherwise. And I rarely...
...Tampa Bay Buccaneers were formed from a pool of pro freshmen-"rooks" in the argot-and a group of veterans other teams considered expendable. Approaching Tampa, McKay said that it would take three years to assemble a competitive team. Meanwhile, he would do the best he could...
...scenes are the battlefields of World War I, hospital wards, lunatic asylums. The mysterious author's protagonist-narrator is a most reluctant soldier and postwar wanderer named Bardamu. Murderers, wife beaters and abortionists appear as ordinary characters in Journey. Its language-French jangled into street argot-is a kind of frenzied shorthand of pain, terror and hate...
...construction teams and farmers ranging far from homes and telephones. The first CB license was not granted until 1947. In the next quar ter-century, only 850,000 CB licenses were issued. Then came the 1973 oil embargo, speed limits were dropped to 55 m.p.h. ("double nickel" in CB argot) and truck drivers installed the units to warn each other of lurking cops ("smokey bears") and radar cars ("Kojak with a Kodak"). Television news picked up the story, and the rest is hysteria...