Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...First Salute is an Old World look at the New. There are no re-enactments of Paul Revere's ride, no echoes of the shot heard round the world. Instead, the critical naval battle in Chesapeake Bay and Washington's victory (with essential French aid) over Cornwallis at Yorktown are presented in the context of political decisions and misjudgments made thousands of miles across the Atlantic. Young America produced an unusual number of intelligent and bold leaders, but, to Tuchman, the success of its war of independence rested largely on the outcome of European struggles for colonies and commerce...
Three decades after the rock revolution, more and more performers are discovering that their hearing is permanently damaged. "It's pretty apparent for everyone who has been in the business," notes Charles Blanket, a New York City sound engineer. Commander Cody, a rock musician in the San Francisco Bay area, suffers from tinnitus, a ringing in the ears. So does Lenny Kaye, a journeyman guitarist who played with the Patti Smith Group. Singer and Bassist Kathy Peck, who had a gig in 1980 at a San Francisco nightspot called the Deaf Club, where deaf patrons danced to the music...
...last year, had been set back a decade. That estimate may have been unduly pessimistic, but not by much. Most visibly, the glossy hotels and clubs that pull in the island's tourist trade were left a shambles, especially in the popular north-coast resort areas of Montego Bay and Ocho Rios. The banana crop, which was expected to produce a banner 50,000- ton harvest this year (up from just 10,000 tons in 1984), was largely destroyed. So were the coconut, coffee, sugar and winter-vegetable crops -- and, not a triviality, the ganja, or marijuana, crop, which means...
...city of Boston should realize that when it comes to winning pennant races, the Boston Red Sox are a sure bet as picking this year's Green Bay Packers to reach the Super Bowl...
...paradigmatic "America-bashing" ACLU liberal who isn't proud of his flag, wants to make America weak militarily and wants to raise taxes. Bush has even trumped Dukakis' strongest cards--competent management and the Massachusetts Miracle--by throwing mouthfuls of statistics at the public implying that the Bay State is not half the utopia its Governor and would-be-President would have us believe. Bush supporters point to polls showing the two candidates running neck and neck...