Word: behind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was an awkward formality to Kirk's unity meeting. A little nervous laughter broke out when Jesse Jackson asked, "Don't any of you want to be my Vice President? No heavy lifting, and I'll let you go to all the good ( funerals." But behind his smile was a clear understanding that Kirk's ploy was really a way to neutralize Jackson's clout...
...only taken the plunge but has also put its prestige and enormous resources behind a radical kind of supercomputer that represents a dramatic break from the past. Since World War II, most computers have been designed to do things one step at a time, moving data in and out of a single high-speed processor. The computer Chen is building with IBM's backing will contain not one but 64 processors, all operating at the same time, in parallel, and thus significantly cutting down computing time. IBM's decision to support a major parallel-processing supercomputer project is a sign...
...Africa, we stand very far behind in political development," said Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the former minister of finance in Liberia...
...superpower machinations in this region have been guided by the same mentality that was behind Vietnam. While the potential outcome of the deployment remains unknown and frightening for students, the first clear victim is the region's one hope for peace. The Central American countries attempted to set their own house in order with the Arias Plan, but superpowers on both sides of the conflict were quick to destroy that indigenous chance for peace...
Last year's results in the Sprints were objectively no better; the Crimson again crossed the line behind three other boats. But after that race, Harvard Coach Charles Butt was quick to point to improvement--his eight had finished only three seconds behind the victorious...