Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beginning to focus attention on the role of U.S. investments in southern Africa, largely with respect to holdings in the Portuguese colonies in that region. Several years later, Swanson came in contact with exiled members of the South African resistance, the African National Congress, as a reporter for the Bay State Banner, a Black Massachusetts weekly. Largely as a result of those interviews, Swanson in 1978 decided to travel to southern Africa...
Some 250 Harvard undergraduates who receive financial aid from the state may get good news soon: the Bay State is considering raising its current $50 million student aid budget by anywhere from $5 million to $25 million...
Groundbreaking ceremonies will take place this week as part of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's (MBTA) continued improvement of the Red Line, Cambridge City Manager Robert W. Healy said yesterday adding that the MBTA will extend the subway platforms to accommodate six car trains...
...window of the door leading to the rooftop helipad. A Marine jerked the arm down smartly onto the broken glass, and as the Marines waited for their deliverance, they alternated between studying the sky to the southeast and raking arms across the glass to keep the Vietnamese at bay. A Chinook-46 escorted by six Cobra gunships came fluttering in from the sea. The Marines dropped canisters of tear gas onto the crowd below, and then they boarded their Chinook. But they had also gassed themselves. As Journalist David Butler writes in his new book The Fall of Saigon, "They...
...down familiar folkloric byways. It will stop to admire the sight of a Texas fishing boat cutting through the muddy water and purple sky, or linger over the electric heat in the slow dance of Madigan and Harris before their ideals fatally collide. But once it gets going, Alamo Bay delivers its argument with rigor and passion...