Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right. Twelve minutes into the second period, Princeton forward Cindy Lombardo got pulled down from behind in the box by Harvard back Cari Lyn Beck--giving the Tigers a golden penalty shot opportunity...
...Supreme Court Justices and ambassadors are traditionally driven to the airport" and that their aides should not hog the spaces, forcing Senators and Representatives to scrounge for other spots. Engen, who doubtless is studying the problem carefully, has yet to reply. Perhaps the next item on Crane's agenda: box seats at Redskins games...
After choosing a line of attack, Oracle switches control to a separate unit called Searcher. Designed by Carl Ebeling, a Carnegie-Mellon graduate student, and manufactured under a Defense Department grant, Searcher is a bread-box- size device that contains 64 special-purpose microprocessors. Each is assigned & to one square of the chessboard. When a piece lands on a particular square, the microchip dedicated to that square determines the likely outcomes. Operating at peak speeds, the 64 chips can evaluate more than 175,000 positions per sec., or 30 million in the 3 min. allowed for each move of tournament...
...critical games. Even a number of the umpires seemed to concur with this. Of course, a cry has gone out again for incorporating replay technology into the sport, leaving the toughest decisions to "the man upstairs," as football's Tex Schramm solemnly refers to the fellow in the press box with the videocassette recorder...
...minutes after the polls had closed. In rural areas, entire villages, in a swirl of colorful peasant costumes, dutifully trooped to local election halls behind brass bands. In the northwestern hamlet of Szczecinek, voting was temporarily disrupted when a woman gave birth to a healthy son beside the ballot box. In Walesa's hometown of Gdansk, 3,000 people marched through the streets carrying a banner that proclaimed WE WON'T GO TO THE POLLS, and in the steel-mill city of Nowa Huta, hundreds of youths clashed with plainclothes police. The head of Poland's Roman Catholic hierarchy, Jozef...