Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prowler crashed got orders, as standard procedure, to land ashore. By 1 a.m., thanks to courageous work by the young Nimitz seamen, the fires were quelled, and the first of 13 corpses picked from the smoldering havoc; the 14th body was never found. With 48 men in sick bay, the casualties exceeded the capacities of the medical facilities. Medevac helicopters arrived at 4:30 a.m. and minutes later took off for Jacksonville with the 21 most seriously wounded crewmen. Then the reckoning of hardware destruction began: the incinerated Prowler, packed with ten jamming transmitters and computerized receivers, was a burned...
That confidence vanished suddenly in early November, when Bay State citizens voted 2-1 in favor of a massive cut in local property taxes. Called "Proposition 2 1/2," because it sets a 2 1/2-per-cent limit on the total value of local property that can be collected in taxes, the new law sent a shock wave through city governments across the state...
...brought them back alone. The process caused surreal dislocations: one day in a firefight in I Corps, the next day standing on the American tarmac somewhere, as if nothing had happened. One veteran remembers the awful solitude of homecoming: "They let us off on the Oakland side of the Bay Bridge. I had to hitchhike to the San Francisco airport because of a transit strike." The Americans who fought in Viet Nam responded when their country asked them to give up their freedom and possibly their lives to do violence in the name of something the Government deemed right. Veteran...
...their rights. A third suit may be filed by the Rev. Robert Mercer and his wife of Detroit. The body of Mercer's stepson Bernal Johnson, 21, was found in a Philippine river on April 24, two days after he escaped from a CCU at the Subic Bay Naval Base. An autopsy showed "possible marks of violence" around the neck. Mercer suspects naval foul play: "My son was a good swimmer, unless he was pushed into the water unconscious...
Like roller disco and hot tubs, land leasing is most popular in California, but it was hardly invented there. In 1632, King Charles I of England leased a huge tract of land on Chesapeake Bay to Lord Baltimore. The rent: two Indian arrows annually, plus one-fifth of all the gold and silver found on the property. Lord Baltimore established Maryland Colony on the land and leased out parcels to settlers. Ground rents are still a tradition in Baltimore. More than half of the 50,000 homes in Baltimore's inner city are on leased land. The contracts...