Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ship, along with the bodies of 70 Soviet crewmen, from 3 miles down. But no missiles or codes are known to have been recovered. Today, says Navy Spokesman Lieut. Ken Ross, the Glomar Explorer is "being retained for Navy contingency use at the Maritime Administration site in Suisun Bay, Calif. If there's something that comes up and we determine that we need to use it, it's there, ready...
...keyed fellow who in his own eight years as managing editor of the Journal discovered that managing editors simply disregard the elephant of the editorial page. Yet as the boss, he encourages such somber trumpetings as a recent editorial branding the President's peace initiation as "Reagan's Bay , of Pigs." ("Barring some dramatic event, Nicaragua was lost once and for all to the Communist empire...
...captain of a Navy salvage vessel in the Pacific is overheard offering to "sell" women crew members to Koreans.At the huge U.S. naval base at Subic Bay in the Philippines, local go-go girls strip in the sailors' clubs while prostitutes circulate among the tables, much to the dismay of U.S. servicewomen seeking relaxed meals outside the mess halls. In the adjacent bar-studded town of Olongapo, women on liberty from the Navy and Marines are "grabbed on the streets by the military men, treating them as though they were free game...
...Harvard and Oxford, offers the livelier version of the city's emergence from alligator swamp to Casablanca, U.S.A. His candidate for founding mother is Julia Tuttle, the independent wife of a Cleveland industrialist who persuaded Henry Flagler to extend his Florida East Coast Railway to the shores of Biscayne Bay, where Tuttle had inherited land from her father. The area promised freedom from the occasional winter frosts that inconvenienced rich vacationers 70 miles north at Palm Beach...
Evidently something terrible has happened here, and much of Beloved is devoted to a painstaking unraveling of this mystery. Sethe is an unwilling participant in the process, since she has everything to forget and believes that "the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay." She cannot quite manage this, since she is afflicted with "a brain greedy for news nobody could live with in a world happy to provide it." The arrival of Paul D brings reminders of the life she fled, but it also seems to promise happier times ahead; he frightens the noisy, disembodied specter...