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...report delivered to the IAEA and outlined at a Soviet press conference in Moscow last week, was one of the more startling examples of a new Soviet openness. Not only does the two-volume, 430- page document assign guilt for the catastrophe but it includes page after page of statistics, charts and drawings explaining the design and operation of Soviet nuclear reactors. The report will serve as a working paper at an IAEA meeting this week to discuss the international implications of the Chernobyl disaster. About 80 nations were slated to send delegations. Participants are expected to approve...
...boss from making war in Grenada. Keeping the CIA's favorite secrets would be impossible. There could be no federal minimum wage. The Air Force could not be funded (the Constitution mentions only an Army and a Navy), and the FCC, if it existed at all, could not assign television channels...
...Chief Justice has only one real institutional prerogative. When he is in the majority, he can assign the task of writing the opinion. If he is in the minority, then the most senior Justice in the majority assigns the opinion. The opinion-assigning power is important, particularly when the court is narrowly divided, because the Justice who writes the court's opinion can set the terms of the debate. Burger repeatedly irked his colleagues by changing his vote to remain in the majority, and by rewarding his friends with choice assignments and punishing his foes with dreary ones. "Rehnquist...
...Rogers commission will assign its own reasons, but one former insider offers a credible theory. Contends Jerome Lederer, founder of the private Flight Safety Foundation and a onetime NASA safety director: "There was social pressure: they had thousands of school kids watching for the first school lesson from space. There was media pressure: they feared that if they didn't launch, the press would unfavorably report more delays. And there was commercial pressure: the Ariane (European launcher) was putting objects in space at much lower cost. NASA was also trying to show the Air Force that they could operate...
These reprogrammable connections give the machine its name. For any particular task, the processors are electronically rearranged to suit the natural structure of the data. To simulate a computer component made up of 20,000 transistorized switches, for example, the machine would assign one processor to each switch. Then, rather than updating the state of those 20,000 switches one at a time, as in a traditional Von Neumann-type computer, the Connection Machine's software simply tells the 20,000 processors to update themselves all at once...