Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relationship with its former colony with a keen eye for such incongruities. Beginning with a penetrating look at 300 years of cruel Spanish rule in the islands, Karnow sketches a history suffused with politics both Machiavellian and messianic: from Commodore George Dewey's whipping the Spaniards at Manila Bay in 1898 and America's later subversion of Emilio Aguinaldo's fledgling government, to Douglas MacArthur's ringing 1942 promise to return to the Philippines and Washington's support for Ferdinand Marcos until the virtual eve of Corazon Aquino's "people power" revolution...
...developers and exploiters. Gradually, but inexorably, oil rigs encroached upon the wilderness, and a huge pipeline now snakes its way across the icy expanses where caribou roam. Loggers have cut ever deeper into the lush forests, and fishermen have cast ever wider nets off the winding shores. From Prudhoe Bay in the north to Anchorage in the south, swarms of settlers have tapped the state's wealth as fast as they could...
Walsh's proposal initially suggested withholding the city's payment of more than $5.8 million to the state for the Cherry Sheet Assessments--which include payments for the Massacusetts Bay Transit Authority, air pollution control and county taxes--until the state pays the money it owes the hospital...
...Black and White eight blazed past six other crews on Mission Bay to cop first place with a 7:36.3 time, almost three seconds and a full boat length ahead of second-place University of British Columbia...
While the sunny skies and 80-degree temperatures were a welcome relief for the lights after days of grueling seat racing on the Charles, the crosswinds and the tide pull of the bay made for a difficult and nervous start...