Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scientists decided to let Physty go. But when they removed the net blocking off the boat basin, he seemed reluctant, twice swerving away from the opening. Thousands of spectators urged him on, shouting, "Go, Physty, go. You can do it." At last the whale was herded into the bay. Then, escorted by eleven boats it slowly headed out to sea. Two Coast Guard vessels followed it 4% miles into the Atlantic, watching it make three dives of about 3 min. apiece, blowing off its steamy breath each time. Then Physty was seen no more. It was the first time that...
Vickery added that in the future the Reagan administration "may hurt community development far more than even Proposition 2 1/2," controversial property tax-cutting Ineasure which Bay State voters approved by a 2-1 margin last fall...
...strong third-place performance last week in the Radcliffe Regatta, the women's sailing team, led by skippers Lauren Norton and Ronnie Sebok, will travel to Naragansett Bay near Providence this weekend to compete in the Northeast championships...
...early as next year, during the shuttle's scheduled fourth flight, it will carry an experimental military payload in its cargo bay: infra-red and laser tracking devices designed to guide future shuttle pilots to orbiting satellites for repair or retrieval-or perhaps for destruction. The experiment's disclosure has already brought a pained outcry from the Kremlin. Though the Soviets are actively experimenting with military lasers, they charge that the U.S. is planning to introduce laser weaponry into space...
...eager to win support in high places, NASA dispatched one of its 23-inch desktop models of space shuttle Columbia to Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese. But like the original, it had a few problems. As the model sat in Meese's darkened office over the weekend, its cargo bay inexplicably swung open. Small metal pieces fell out. So sensitive is the White House alarm system these days that a flock of "white mice"-the nickname for agents responsible for office security-came scurrying. To their bafflement, they found the room locked, unoccupied and undisturbed. As with the real shuttle...