Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rising tide of American conservatism reached even Democratic Massachusetts Tuesday, as Bay State voters voted both for Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan and a massive cut in local property taxes...
...Prudoe Bay) was just a lot of machinery hauled up and plopped down on the permafrost to make as much money as possible as quickly as it could. And the men were there only to make sure the machinery did its job. Alaska was not part of their dream. It had never been, for them, a goal, a destination, a frontier for them to explore as they explored new levels of themselves. It was just like Saudi Arabia Indonesia, East Texas, the North Sea--a place under which oil happened to be. They were an occupying army, bloodless mercenaries...
UPSET BY RISING taxes and angered by the inefficiency of state government, Bay State voters seem in a mood to approve Question 2 on next Tuesday's ballot, a tax-cutting referendum popularly known as Proposition 2 1/2. Should they succumb to that temptation, however, they would be virtually extinguishing local government in the Commonwealth, trusting only to faint hopes for tax reform to save Massachusetts from disaster...
Voter turnouts as high as 90 per cent are expected across the state today, as a tight presidential race and the most publicized referendum question in recent years lure Bay State residents to the polls...
...replaced simple celebration, Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium looked like a banana republic during the final game. More than 600 policemen -some mounted on horseback, others hauling on the leashes of snarling attack dogs-surrounded the field during the final inning. With 65,838 fans thus held at bay, Relief Pitcher Tug McGraw threw a third-strike pitch past Royals' Outfielder Willie Wilson with the bases loaded for the last out, and the title belonged to Manager Dallas Green's team...