Word: basics
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...reason for Carlucci's participation in this dialogue was his interest in forming a judgment on a matter of fundamental concern to U.S. defense planners: whether the Soviet Union's basic military doctrine is evolving from an offensive to a defensive orientation. The possibility of such a change was first noted by some U.S. military scholars about two years...
...protests flared ominously early last week after the government failed to meet a $34 million payroll for 130,000 public employees. Each received a check that was initially uncashable, along with the right to pay a discount price for a bag containing rice, beans, salt and other basic foods meant to feed a family of five for a week. Outraged workers poured the salt on office steps and chanted anti-Noriega slogans. Firing tear gas and bird shot, riot police broke up demonstrations at the Education Ministry in Panama City and in the ports of Balboa and Cristobal...
Unlike the basic unit of conventional computer programming -- the algorithm, which details a precise series of steps that will yield a precise result -- those rules (referred to in computerese as heuristics) state a relationship that is likely, but not guaranteed, to yield an outcome. Heuristics allow computers to deal with situations that cannot be reduced to mathematical formulas and may involve many exceptions. It is the kind of reasoning that governs countless everyday decisions, ranging from the mundane, such as choosing the appropriate clothes for a job interview, to the apocalyptic, such as deciding whether a Soviet missile launch...
...Chamber of Commerce, however, said the bill "does little to protect these basic rights" and may end up "imposing unnecessary regulatory burdens" on businesses, farmers and others...
...basic problem, according to City Manager Robert W. Healy, is Cambridge's high auto density. "Well, you're looking at a city with more linear miles of automobiles than street," Healy says. "There is no simple solution...