Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...admonishes. Tension often runs high. Recalls an ex-employee who worked in sales for three years: "The metal trash can between me and the person sitting next to me was always full of dents because my neighbor was constantly kicking it. His phone was often broken because he threw down the receiver after every call...
Conventional computers function by following a chainlike sequence of detailed instructions. Although very fast, their processors can perform only one task at a time. This lockstep approach works best in solving problems that can be broken down into simpler logical pieces. The processors in a neural- network computer, by contrast, form a grid, much like the nerve cells in the brain. Since these artificial neurons are interconnected, they can share information and perform tasks simultaneously. This two-dimensional approach works best at recognizing patterns...
...broken families, working mothers and perils like drugs, growing up is not easy. From the depressed hollows of West Virginia to the comfortable breezes off Puget Sound, five terrific kids laugh and play and struggle through the jagged landscape of modern childhood...
...trainee is struck by enemy fire, he actually feels the hit. Indeed, the simulation can be dangerously % realistic. "We had to turn this one down," says Ray McCabe, flight- simulation supervisor at the Army's Fort Bragg. "We had a lot of guys lose teeth or have their nose broken from the impact...
...World Apart is refreshingly different because it resists, for the most part, the impulse to strike out what might be better left unsaid (although it does gloss over the Firsts' communist sympathies). Rather, it aims at realism, insofar as it doesn't omit family fights, broken friendships or even Diana's attempted suicide. And it succeeds because it is not a blanket statement about injustice and racism; it is about the lives of its characters. It is as much, if not more, about the relationship between mother and child than about the conflict between liberal journalist and apartheid-supporting police...