Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Honoring the Confederacy would open up the wounds of the 1960's, not the 1860's. Few people remain bitter over theCivil War. But memories of Alabama police chiefs, water cannons, and attack dogs still linger in the minds of millions of Americans. Most Americans can still remember the debate over the Civil Rights Act. They remember the words to "We Shall Overcome" and the day Martin Luther King was gunned down in Memphis...
HARVARD may end up, for the moment, with nine more Hasty Puddings where only people with money and connections can belong. Unfortunately, this type of elitism is not illegal. It's impossible to attack the final clubs on strictly legal grounds for charging money and choosing who they want--thousands of golf clubs, country clubs, and social clubs legally do the same thing. Financial elitism is protected by our laws, gender elitism...
...decisions is "perhaps the most ! subtle and dangerous consequence of the patchwork rationality of present expert systems." He is specifically concerned about the use of expert systems in President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars system. In the 1960s, Winograd notes, a computer system announced a Soviet attack when radar signals bounced off the moon, an occurrence that had not been anticipated by the programmer. He contends that the potential for similar errors is greatly magnified with expert systems...
...come to an inconclusive end marked by partisan sniping. The Wall Street Crash and last December's Reagan-Gorbachev summit concentrated the nation's mind on larger matters. If the Iran-contra scandal has been a refrain in Democratic primary campaigns, and a stick that rivals have used to attack Bush, voters have seemed more interested in determining who can best protect their jobs and deal with Gorbachev...
...Poindexter, North and two other Iranscam conspirators. -- A Sandinista "invasion" leads Reagan to send 3,200 U. S. troops to Honduras. -- In the wake of the Illinois primary, the Democratic race is more muddled than ever. -- A quiet town on the Hudson River is rocked by a controversial racial attack...