Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tops," Jagger, who turned 37 this year, digs even further into the hypocrisy he and his mates have lived on, intoning over and over to no one in particular, "I'll take you to the top, bay-ay-by/I'll take...
Buckley was cut halfway through the NFL exhibition season without getting a chance to play in a game. Patriot coach Ron Erhardt had him slated to play the fourth quarter against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in New England's second pre-season match, but decided not to insert him with a 17-16 lead...
...recalling that Truman's Secretary of Defense James Forrestal opposed the creation of a Jewish state in the coldest days of the cold war, partly because he feared that Israel and America's commitment to it would hamper the twin strategic tasks of keeping Joseph Stalin at bay and keeping the peace in the oilfields and tanker lanes. Truman overruled Forrestal-but for reasons of right, not might. He was under no illusion that Israel was, or ought to be, a military ally or that the U.S. was fostering an anti-Soviet "consensus" in the area. Arab hostility...
...also claimed the waters of the Gulf of Sidra, which indents about a third of the Libyan coastline, as an internal sea. In some cases, a nation's sovereignty over a body of water is indeed recognized by international agreement, provided that the mouth of the bay or gulf concerned is no wider than 24 miles; the mouth of the Gulf of Sidra is more than ten times as broad as that. No other nation, not even the Soviet Union, recognizes the Libyan claim...
That tactic was used two months ago by Canada's Dome Petroleum to acquire a 52.9% interest in Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas, a Canadian firm controlled by Conoco. Stripped of its Canadian holdings, Conoco became a takeover target and wound up being acquired by Du Pont...