Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President John F. Kennedy had come to office criticizing Eisenhower's failure to check the advance of Communism in Cuba. But Kennedy's effort to roll back Soviet influence ended in disaster in April 1961 at the Bay of Pigs. It was there that, 1,300 CIA-trained Cuban exiles failed to invade the island and spark a movement that would bring down Fidel Castro...
...first time in a long time, Americans will be able to toast the new year with the feeling that it will bring greater prosperity and brighter prospects. With unemployment falling, incomes rising, inflation at bay and shoppers crowding into stores, the economy is entering 1984 on a roll rather than in a rut. Looking back, businessmen and consumers can celebrate 1983 as a year of rebound and turnaround. For many industries and labor unions, it was also a year of transition and turmoil that will permanently reshape the economic landscape. Serious threats to growth remain, most notably the ballooning federal...
That year, Plunkett was released by the San Francisco 49ers, who had fetched him home to the Bay Area two seasons earlier, a reclamation project partially sentimental. Plunkett describes the sensation as "carrying the weight of the world," and says, "I thought about quitting." Rather, he moved over to Oakland, and sat around behind Ken Stabler for two full years and Dan Pastorini for part of another. He says, "I asked to be traded at the start of the 1980 season," but did not get his wish. It was the year he was the Most Valuable Player in the Super...
...Green Bay 12, Tampa Bay...
...circled the earth for the third time, with no problem in view, Astronaut Owen Garriott and his West German sidekick Ulf Merbold floated gracefully toward the rear of the main cabin. They reached out and tugged at a hatch that would lead them to the shuttle's cargo bay. To their surprise, despite several minutes of huffing and pulling, the door refused to budge. Not until the muscle power of the entire six-man crew, the largest group ever to fly in space, was applied to the balky hatch did it finally swing open, permitting the astronauts to enter...