Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really is one.) The 800 or so actuaries, social scientists, lawyers and psychologists who are expected to attend will gather in -- what better place? -- San Francisco. They need only step outside their hotels to see a city that has become one vast society for risk analysis. All around the Bay Area these days, amid the tumbled roadways and jolted buildings left by the earthquake, people are asking themselves: Is it crazy to live on a fault line...
That motivation has stemmed, in part, from their dedication to the game. Both participate in summer leagues--Cutone in the Boston Bay League, Landau in a New York league. The motivation has carried over to their games this season...
...coverage, San Jose and Santa Cruz were still disconcertingly cut off from contact, the scope of the tragedy on Oakland's I-880 was unknown, and it had been impossible for reporters to convey the full flavor of what life was like for 6 million residents of the Bay Area on a night they will never forget. "The instinct of journalists is to have it tidy," says Brokaw. "In this case there were many loose ends even at the end of the night...
...divisions, as it did after the massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Anchoring from Washington, Ted Koppel again proved that he is unsurpassed in the art of extracting facts from chaos. While CBS's Dan Rather was still stressing the "unconfirmed" nature of reports about the collapse of the Bay Bridge, ABC (along with the ever enterprising CNN) had already broadcast a shot of the fallen roadway...
...state and local officials were collecting congratulations on their efforts last week, troubling questions were being raised about two catastrophes: the collapse of a stretch of Interstate 880 in Oakland and the fall of a 50-ft. span on the Bay Bridge, which connects Oakland and San Francisco. In concentrating on the destructive potential of buildings, had government disaster planners overlooked the fragile condition of heavily traveled highways and bridges...