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Word: bayes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...waste water leaked for several hours from a tank at a problem-ridden nuclear power station in Tsuruga, Japan. The Workers dispatched to mop it up were exposed to radiation. The problem was not disclosed publicly until six weeks after the accident, when radioactivity was detected in a nearby bay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perhaps the Worst, Not the First | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...going to save for you. We might have some fun with him.' " The British beer guzzler Bold Arrangement took a lovely second and hurried away with a foaming head to the 205-year-old "real Derby" at Epsom Downs next month. Broad Brush, an affable bay who likes to be taken on joyrides in his trainer's van, came third. All around, it was a happy day for practically everyone but the 1-2 favorites Snow Chief and Badger Land, who finished eleventh and fifth. By the Dosage Index, a perplexing pedigree calibrator much under discussion these days, Snow Chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fresh Roses for Shoe | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...last week's raid was an advanced version of the F-111 fitted with a special electronics navigation and targeting pod known as Pave Tack. Developed by Ford Aerospace & Communications and first delivered to the Air Force less than six years ago, the pod fits in the weapons bay of the F- 111 and allows the pilot to find his target in total darkness while moving at very high speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lethal Video Game | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...know if it is because I look intelligent or simply because I look confused enough to believe them, but every creature of this type always finds me the perfect person with whom to share his creationist or eschatological theories. Indeed, it seems I can never make it from Bay Bank to the Coop without something lurching into me and shouting at me "God is here!!! I saw him in the Wursthaus!" or "Don't think I don't know what you did to my wife...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Square Ordeal | 4/23/1986 | See Source »

Almost 80 years after the great earthquake of April 1906, which killed more than 700 people, another tremor hit the San Francisco Bay Area last week. Measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale, vs. an estimated 8.3 for the '06 temblor, the quake for four seconds shook shelves and nerves from Santa Rosa to San Luis Obispo. Damage was minimal: some 21,000 people lost power briefly, but the San Francisco skyscrapers merely swayed, as they are designed to do. The tremor, along with another mild one the previous Saturday, was the latest in a series that has shaken the area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geology: Shakes, Rattles and Rolls | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

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