Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They made the free throw, too, which earned them an extra few seconds on the clock. But right after that, Gale Sawyers, one of the best Bear guards ever, and one of the best ever in the American League West, scored four lay-ups to put the St. Louis Bay Buccaneers so far behind that they didn't stand a chance with only a few seconds remaining in the third quarter...
...offensive capabilities, depend upon continuing supplies from the U.S.S.R. and the assistance of an estimated 6,000 Soviet advisers based in Viet Nam. In exchange, Soviet reconnaissance planes land at Vietnamese airports and Soviet naval ships have refueling rights at U.S.-built ports at Danang and Cam Ranh Bay. For Hanoi, Soviet assistance is the key to maintaining its present strong position in Indochina. For Moscow, the partnership keeps China off-balance and helps the Soviets gain influence in all of Southeast Asia. But fiercely independent Viet Nam is no complaisant puppet. Some Western experts believe that Hanoi...
Until now, U.S. ships on station in the Indian Ocean have been fed by supply lines stretching to Subic Bay in the Philippines, about 3,600 miles to the east, or to the Mediterranean Sea, some 3,200 miles to the northwest. Meanwhile, an imposing Soviet fleet calls at bases around the rim of the Indian Ocean, including an anchorage on the island of Socotra in the mouth of the Gulf of Aden. The Soviets are currently seeking permission to build a base in the Seychelles, 1,200 miles west of Diego Garcia, though President Albert Rene insists he will...
Hazzard's sense of place is equally unerring. Born in Australia and currently dividing her time between Capri and New York City, she selected Italian backgrounds for her two earlier novels, The Evening of the Holiday and The Bay of Noon, and for several of her short stories. Even more pungent and persuasive, however, are her evocations of Australia and of English middle-class society in The Transit of Venus. Of Grace and Caro's Australia, Hazzard writes: "To appear without gloves, or in other ways suggest the flesh, to so much as show unguarded love...
State Rep. Barney Frank '61 launched the next step in the fight--constitutions, he pointed out, can be amended, and unless Harvard cooperated, he threatened, the Bay State's would be. Unnerved by the thought of a statewide referendum on the question of special protection for the University, with the attendant spotlight on its sins past and present, Harvard bit the bullet and decided not to lobby against the exemption repeal when it appeared in the legislature this year...