Word: behind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coffins were being lowered into the earth, the crack of gunshots and the thud of hand grenades echoed over the grave markers. Panicked mourners dived to the ground or crouched behind tombstones. Pistol in one hand, a bearded man hurled several more grenades into the throng and fired at the bereaved. As the injured staggered away in shock or cowered in terror, a group of enraged mourners pursued the retreating attacker, caught him several hundred yards away and beat him severely before he was rescued and arrested by men of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (R.U.C.), the Northern Ireland police ! force...
...never emerges from behind the camera, but every frame tells you who directed The Milagro Beanfield War. This movie even looks like Robert Redford: it's smart and handsome, with a crinkly smile around the edges. It boasts wistful vistas and umber landscapes. Clouds stampede over the northern New Mexico terrain, where hillocks perch like adobe huts. The kiss of two fine brown faces is silhouetted by an orange sunset, flaring into sympathetic melodrama. Night falls, and there's a rope of rainbow in the sky; a frosted moon smiles behind a scrim of mist. It makes for quite...
...dismissed so easily. Led by five officers, including Colonel Leonidas Macias, chief of the national police, the mutiny marked a milestone in an opposition drive, supported if not engineered by the U.S., to force Noriega from power. "This explodes the myth that the armed forces are united behind Noriega," said a knowledgeable Panamanian in Washington. "Now he can't be sure of anyone's loyalty. The thugs have started to fight among themselves...
Still, the impetus behind second-wave technology is not its potential but what it can deliver now in financial returns and improved productivity. In April 1986, IBM brought on line its first expert system, called DEFT (for Diagnostic Expert-Final Test). Its task: to perform the mundane but critical job of diagnosing problems during the final testing of the giant disk drives that store information for IBM's mainframe computers. Since then the testing system has been adapted as a diagnostic tool for IBM service experts and to perform a variety of different tests on IBM equipment. IBM's initial...
...Schorr claims, is the world leader in applied artificial intelligence, Du Pont is running close behind. Ed Mahler, the Delaware multinational's program director for artificial intelligence, says the company currently has 200 knowledge systems in use and expects to have 2,000 systems running by 1990. The reason for the explosion, according to Mahler: knowledge- processing technology is now affordable, and even the most sophisticated systems are available on personal computers...