Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demonstrators and Spartacist League members exchanged top-of-the-voice charges and countercharges on subjects ranging from the Moonies to Stalinism to Reagan budget cuts and including Trotskyism, fascism, the Catholic Church, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Nazism and the Bay of Pigs, about 30 individuals inside the hall listened silently as Joseph Seymour, a member of the Spartacist League central committee, talked about Solidarity's ties to Western imperialism...
Nothing quite like it has ever been attempted in space. As the gleaming white-and-black orbiter hurtles across the skies, a long, mechanical arm, rather like the boom of a cherry picker, will emerge slowly from the spacecraft's cargo bay. Bending and flexing its metallic muscles, the multijointed limb will reach out into space almost as if it were guided by an independent intelligence...
...especially concerned with the tests of the robot arm. Truly, who will work the space crane with hand grips at an observation post in the back of the command cabin, had originally been scheduled to try the arm's gripping apparatus on a fixture in the cargo bay. But the trial was scrubbed because of problems with the arm's hand, known in NASAese as an "end effector." Eventually, the spider-web-like wire snare should be able to capture any satellite equipped with appropriately mated hooks. On this voyage, Truly will only guide the 50-ft.-long...
...Louis Cardinals 52-10, while the world champion Oakland Raiders lost to the Houston Oilers, 17-16 as all three games behind the Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC West Division. The Bengals shocked San Diego, 40-17. Minnesota jumped into first place in the NFC Central in beating Tampa Bay...
...process of budget-making has been complicated a hundred-fold by the passage of Proposition 2 1/2, the property tax-cutting measure which Bay State voters approved overwhelmingly last fall. Prop 2 1/2, the property tax-cutting measure which Bay State voters approved overwhelmingly last fall. Prop 2 1/2 reduces the total expenditures of each municipality in the Commonwealth, and thus forces tough choices by local governments. The city council this year passed a budget which significantly reduced funding for the school, fire and police departments without drastically affecting city services. Next fiscal year, however, the choices promise...