Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...King Kong) and Italian Actress Silvana Magnano (Bitter Rice, Barabbas) and himself the producer of the 1978 film King of the Gypsies; of injuries received in the mid-air collision of two light planes while he was shooting a documentary on Alaska's annual fish harvest; over Kvichak Bay, Alaska...
...capacities of the tiny Mediterranean fruit fly: a mature female can produce 1,000 eggs over its two-month life span. Last week alone, the targeted area expanded from 120 to 140 to 180 sq. mi. and fears mounted that the fly was about to break out of the Bay Area and move into the lush farm lands of the San Joaquin Valley. The long-range worry: a federal quarantine, which would cripple the state's $14 billion farm industry and send produce prices soaring all over the U.S. Five states-Texas, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and South Carolina -have...
...drama of high finance. It began with unwelcome assaults on Conoco by two Canadian companies. The first came in May, when Dome Petroleum bought 20% of Conoco's stock. The U.S. company fended off that threat by agreeing to trade its majority interest in the Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas Co. in return for the Conoco stock that Dome had acquired. At the same time, however, a more ominous Canadian challenger appeared. In late May, Seagram privately approached Conoco with an offer to buy 35% of the oil firm's shares. Edgar Bronfman, Seagram...
...finders visit dozens of private schools a year. Boarding schools specializing in laggard students are much in demand. Says Beverly Hills Counselor Harriett Bay: "Rarely does a parent come in with a terrific little kid seeking a terrific school. Most come in a moment of crisis...
Whether bursting the seams of a five-story New York City brownstone and a summer home at Oyster Bay, or sailing up the Nile in the winter of 1872-73, the Roosevelts appeared to be living one inspired moment after another. A friend observed that they constituted "a family so rarely gifted as to seem ... touched by the flame of the 'divine fire.' " But, as David McCullough's family portrait reveals, tragic cracks flawed all the Roosevelts, particularly the man who was, as if by mutual choice, the family's crown prince...