Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year's floods follow a devastating inundation in 1987, and worse may be in store. The problem begins beyond Bangladesh in a 600,000-sq.-mi. watershed of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna river systems. All flow through Bangladesh and empty into the Bay of Bengal. The watershed contains the southern slopes of the Himalayas in northern India, Nepal and Bhutan, where the hillsides have been ravaged by deforestation. With the denuded soil no longer able to absorb monsoon rains, the savage runoff increases year by year in speed and volume, bringing with it ever larger loads of silt...
Holt carried 32 out of 60 precincts--mostly in the more liberal Back Bay and South End--but garnered only 35 percent of the votes, because turnouts were far heavier in South Boston...
...hand, Holt beat Bulger by a count of better than three to one in the South End and Back Bay, but an average turnout that may have been as low as 10 percent cost Holt the necessary lead, according to AI Glass, Holt's volunteer coordinator...
...York City, a ham radio operator who was monitoring amateur radio communications in Jamaica said yesterday, "Kingston is devastated, Montego Bay is hit hard and Ocho Rios is flooded...
Herb Schoenbaum, a radio ham operator in the Virgin Islands, said he spoke yesterday with Dave Porter, an American staying in the Wyndham Hotel on Jamaica's Montego Bay. "Porter reported that the hotel `peeled apart like a banana' when the force of Hurricane Gilbert hit last night," Schoenbaum said...