Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the approved budget orders no lay-offs, City Manager Robert W. Healy said late last week that 80 municipal positions now vacant will not be filled next year. He explained that the city's fixed costs, such as annual user fee payments, to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority have increased with inflation...
...expert whose letter to Judge John Sirica began to unravel coverup, runs small solar-energy firm in Fort Collins, Colo. Frank Sturgis, 57, self-styled "Communist fighter," sells videotapes in Miami. Claims "Watergate financially destroyed me." Plotted bizarre attempt by Cuban exiles to invade U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay last year and establish "free" Cuban government there. No invader reached base...
Commencement also has an impact outside of the ivied walls. By agreement with the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, construction work on the Red Line ceases one day a year. And while the MBTA workers get a day off, most of the Square's other employees are extra busy...
...pilot flew so low over the frigate Antelope that his aircraft scraped against the ship's mast. A 500-lb. bomb penetrated the frigate's midsection, where it failed to detonate. The ship limped slowly up the Bay of San Carlos, giving off smoke, and British bomb-disposal experts were sent aboard to see if they could defuse the bomb. The main assignment fell to Staff Sergeant James Prescott, 37, of the Royal Engineers. "One twitch, Dad, and you're dead," he had once told his father about his work. The bomb exploded and he died instantly...
...Duce was entertaining the Führer with a grand show of Italy's naval might. Dozens of warships steamed across the Bay of Naples, and, like precision swimmers, 85 submarines dived beneath the water, resurfacing eight minutes later in perfect formation to fire an eleven-gun tribute to their Nazi guest. It was a dazzling display from a master of spectacle, but like most other things Benito Mussolini did, this muscle flexing was little more than an act: two years later, after a few disastrous encounters with Britain's Royal Navy, his impressive-looking fleet cowered...