Word: bayes
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...goal may still be out of reach. It is to prove to nervous neighbors that U.S. diplomatic and military actions in Central America and Grenada are part of a credible commitment to peaceful change in the region, even while they keep the forces of radicalism and violent upheaval at bay. A senior U.S. diplomat acknowledged the challenge as he noted that many of the hemisphere's countries "are upset by what they fear the U.S. intentions...
These orbital theatrics have a high purpose. In pushing off from Challenger's open cargo bay, Astronauts Bruce McCandless II, 46, and Robert Stewart, 41, both of whom are making their initial shuttle trips, will be rehearsing the first repair of a satellite in orbit. That is slated to take place in April, when astronauts attempt to retrieve and revive a $150 million robot scientific observatory nicknamed Solar Max, which has been spinning helplessly since it broke down three years ago. If this tinkering succeeds, it could pave the way for even more ambitious efforts, including the assembly...
Preliminary studies agree that the station will have to be freighted piecemeal into orbit inside the space shuttle's big cargo bay. This "building-block approach," as the chief of NASA's Space-Station Task Force, John Hodge, calls it, will take a minimum of five flights. The components will include two or more cylinder-shaped modules, each with the volume of a large recreational vehicle. These will serve as working and living ("habitation modules" in NASAese) quarters for the astronauts. Solar panels will catch sunlight and turn it into electricity. Huge radiators will shed excess heat from...
Fortunately for Harvard's term bill office, most of the manual work is done by Bay Bank Harvard Trust Co. When students or parents mail in money for the new academic season, the checks go directly to a strongbox at the bank and are credited to Harvard's account...
...controlled all drilling on the shelf beyond three miles, except off Texas and Florida, which maintain a ten-mile jurisdiction.-The decision, written by Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, involves 29 tracts, totaling 165,000 acres, in the Santa Maria basin off the California coast between Morro Bay and Point Conception, northwest of Santa Barbara. Geologists have estimated there may be as much as 1 billion bbl. of oil in the entire basin. The sections had initially been freed up for lease by the Interior Department in 1981. But California managed to block the proposed arrangement...