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Word: bayes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...needn't be any longer, as the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) has developed a plan to install an annunciator system that will allow commuters to await trains under the watchful and sensitive eyes of T employees...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Computer Voice to Herald Arrival of Subway Trains | 11/29/1987 | See Source »

...needn't be any longer, as the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) has developed a plan to install an annunciator system that will allow commuters to await trains under the watchful and sensitive eyes of T employees...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Computer Voice to Herald Arrival of Subway Trains | 11/25/1987 | See Source »

...last extended bit of warmth I was to receive for much of the day was the train ride to New Haven. I stepped out of the station into a wind chill that would make the most rabid Green Bay Packer-Backer wither...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Contemplating Games and The Game | 11/24/1987 | See Source »

William Bennett, the declamatory Secretary of Education, has opened his bomb bay over Chicago. During a visit he branded the school system America's worst, with a dropout rate of 45% and achievement scores for many schools in the bottom 1% nationwide. Chicago officials were not pleased. After all, surveys have put New York City's and Detroit's dropout rates higher. Chicago Mayor Harold Washington angrily countercharged that Ronald Reagan "has literally dismantled public education in this country." Last week, after saying "the mayor doesn't know what the hell he is talking about," Bennett went to tiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Which System Is the Worst? | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...about 1:30 a.m., German torpedo boats slipped into Lyme Bay and launched their weapons against the convoy. The toll: 749 Americans dead, four times the number that perished on Utah Beach. Most were raw recruits who had never seen the enemy. For the sake of wartime secrecy, news of the tragedy was withheld. The dead were never honored with an official monument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Finally, Remembrance | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

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