Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brothers learned anything in their first two years of power, it was, to use John Kennedy's borrowed phrase, that "victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan." Often he had pondered his humiliation at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961. Some day, he used to muse, he would write the story of the last White House meeting before that debacle, when Kennedy had gone around the table and extracted an opinion from each of his advisers. None foresaw disaster, he said...
...recent Nicaraguan military buildup should surprise only the naive. By not discouraging the training of counter revolutionaries on American soil, the Administration has done little to assuage Nicaraguan fears of a U.S. sponsored invasion. Events like the Bay of Pigs remain fresh enough in South American minds to arouse what we must hope is unjustified paranoia. Until the U.S. ceases its open hostility the Nicaraguans will likely continue to buy arms--taking needed resources away from other parts of a troubled economy and fueling what has become a diplomatic vicious circle...
Traditionally, that superficial assessment hasn't been true. While with the exception of President Reagan, the state has voted for every Democratic presidential nominee in the past 20 years, Bay State voters have chosen Republican gubernatorial candidates is more than half the elections during that same period...
Shooting began, and when it was over hours later, Khiabani and 21 other Mujahedin were dead. Scores of government forces were also killed or injured. According to witnesses, Khiabani's own seven-man detail of bodyguards managed to hold the government gunmen at bay until the guerrilla leader got back into the car. Another heavily armed Mujahedin squad blasted a corridor through the government forces to provide an escape route for the auto. Khiabani, though wounded, managed to drive off, but an Islamic Guard scored a direct hit on the Peugeot with a Soviet-made RPG-7 antitank rocket...
...result is an effervescent creative spirit that bubbles like California's best sparkling wine. Says Dallas-based LJ. Sevin, managing partner of Sevin Rosen Partners, which invests heavily in the new firms: "Between 60% and 70% of the most interesting ideas for new companies come out of the Bay Area...