Word: branches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bank officials yesterday confirmed that the branch had been robbed, but would not disclose how much money the bandit took...
...enough writers here to form a dissident branch of the Soviet Writers' Union," Aksyonov ironically observes. A member of the official union for 18 years and the U.S.S.R.'s most popular living novelist, Aksyonov was pressured to leave the country when he edited an anthology of unorthodox Russian writing that the union deemed subversive. The collection, entitled Metropol, which includes an excerpt of a comic play by Aksyonov, was published in the U.S. by W.W.Norton...
...voters should keep in mind that November's Presidential race will profoundly influence not only the Executive Branch, but the Judicial one as well...
Some of the most interesting products on display last week were offshoots of research being done on artificial intelligence, a branch of computer science that teaches machines to simulate human thought. The first visible results of this work are programs that allow users to put questions to a computer in everyday language rather than in convoluted codes or obscure commands. Instead of typing commas, colons, numbers and letters, an operator can enter requests as straightforward as "Give me the top five salesmen in Pennsylvania." Two innovative firms, Microrim, from Bellevue, Wash., and Artificial Intelligence, from Waltham, Mass., demonstrated programs that...
Feldstein sees his job as "the economic adviser to the President, the economic voice of the Cabinet, the person who also brings a technical economic viewpoint to Executive Branch discussions and, occasionally, the representative of the consumer, or the general good, or the unrepresented constituency-everybody." The worst way to do his task, he argues, is to tell people what they already believe. Says he: "There's no value added in that...