Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some states are moving to fill the void. Massachusetts, for example, last year set up the Bay State Skills Corp. and endowed it with $8 million to establish training programs. Already 3,400 people are learning such skills as computer programming and electromechanical drafting to qualify for jobs with 185 companies, including Honeywell and General Ship & Engine Works...
Detroit 30, Green Bay...
...Kennedy's political platform has often seemed more suited to the Great Society of the 1960s than to the more fiscally tight 1980s. Along with Bay State congressional colleague Tip O'Neill, Kennedy has increasingly been seen as a caricature of the decline of 1960s urban liberalism, a vestigial proponent of an outdated philosophy. Exit polls during last month's midterm elections illustrated this perception: they showed President Reagan comfortably ahead of Kennedy and of fellow old-style liberal Walter F. Mondale. Voters apparently doubted--with reason--whether the two Democratic frontrunners had any fresh alternatives to Reaganomics, believing...
...college students and other romantics. Yet the legislature's move is practical as well as symbolic. It serves notice to Pretoria that apartheid must go. And it encourages more than 30 American firms to reconsider both the moral and financial wisdom of maintaining businesses in South Africa. If the Bay State's action reveals a romantic outlook, it is a romanticism that the University would be wise to adopt...
Marriage wrote Novelist John P. Marquand, "is a damnably serious business, particularly around Boston." And also, these days, around Tokyo. The Japanese are as obsessive about nuptials as any traditional Back Bay clan. Moreover, they have far more opportunities to celebrate weddings...