Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher and other key U.S. negotiators and aides had flown to Algiers two weeks ago on an Air Force Boeing 707. They expected to stay in the U.S. embassy compound, on a hill overlooking the Bay of Algiers, for only a few days. Their mission was to be on hand to give Algerian diplomats, who were acting as intermediaries between the U.S. and Iran, a quick response to any questions raised in Tehran about the U.S. offer...
...always had a schedule, a purpose. I've always been an ambitious and driving person." He looked across the table at his wife. "Rosalynn and I haven't had a vacation since our honeymoon." Then he said they will spend the next two weeks at Caneel Bay in the Virgin Islands...
...N.F.L. championship, there was no Super Bowl, the A.F.L. was in its first season, and the indestructible Chuck Bednarik was on the field for the full 60 minutes, playing center on offense and linebacker on defense. The Eagles won their game against Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers. But the Philadelphia franchise quickly fell from glory. After a decade and a half near the cellar, Owner Leonard Tose brought in a hard-eyed young coach from U.C.L.A. to revive the team...
...retirees are as plentiful as six-packs of Gatorade, Eckerd College has quite another capital idea. Eckerd, founded in 1958, has only 1,120 undergraduates and relies on a smallish $8 million endowment. But among its assets are 267 palmy, balmy acres of campus right on beautiful Boca Ciega Bay. Eckerd's idea: build houses on some of its land and sell or rent them to retirees. The college wants to put up 500 condominiums and a 270-unit high-rise-complete with nearby shopping center, conference hall, nursing facility and marina. Eckerd considers all this to be part...
...thoughts are religiously down to earth. Nothing can be understood without knowing the land, hugging it, runnings one's fingers over it, as he does at the end when he locates a swan and the initials "JGS" which his "winter brother" had carved in the sandstone at Neah Bay. If he reads Swan's dairy about the place where the trail from Cape Alava to Lake Ozette crosses a stream he goes there and traces the exact footsteps, finding the exact place and evoking it in detail...