Word: brains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brain of "those beeping, thinking toys" is not just a memory chip. It doesn't just store data, it manipulates them. This chip is correctly called a microprocessor...
...soar to $500 million, while claiming the deficit stood no higher than $43 million. "They sat there and lied to me," said Byrne, recalling a recent upbeat discussion of school finances with Hannon and his aides. "I don't think anybody with half a brain can mistake the difference between $43 million and $500 million." That was a puzzling claim, since Byrne herself was confusingly mixing together two separate problems-last year's operating deficit of $43 million, and estimated total indebtedness to bondholders and others...
...draft. True, Stewart scoffed that the final product had been edited from a "D" to a "B" by law school grading standards, but the incident showed that the court has internal checks and balances. Lobbying by outsiders is shown to be futile. When the Washington lawyer and Franklin Roosevelt brain-truster Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran visited his old friend Black and acquaintance Brennan to get a controversial antitrust decision reheard, or when New York Times Editor James ("Scotty") Reston telephoned Burger to talk about the Pentagon papers case, they were quickly rebuffed...
...Southeast Asian politicians had better listen to the experts who claim that brain damage in the young could result from not eating well and enough. Otherwise, there will be stunted students and stupid soldiers by the year 2000. Mario Ramos Pasay-an De Kalb...
...keep their secret world. Born in 1970 in Columbus, Ga., to Accountant Tom Kennedy, now 47, and Christine Kennedy, now 37, a German-born bookkeeper he met in a Munich dance hall during the Fasching festival, Gracie and Ginny suffered violent convulsions days after birth. Tests showed no brain damage, but the Kennedys claim that a Georgia neurosurgeon said it would be five years before the girls could be judged normal or retarded. Kennedy, who later lost his accounting job and moved the family to San Diego in hopes of selling real estate, was inclined to take the neurosurgeon literally...