Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...primaries and participate in caucuses will settle for Dukakis, the jelly maker, when they can have Jackson, the tree shaker. By failing to win a major contest outside New England since Super Tuesday, Dukakis cracked the axle on his bandwagon. Indirect negotiations with Cuomo over an endorsement were broken off after the Michigan debacle. Dukakis remains by far the party's most plausible nominee, but only if he can rebound in Wisconsin, New York and the later primaries. Dukakis still holds formidable advantages in terms of money, organization and the goodwill of party leaders. But the terrain is littered with...
...jury was charged with deciding the one count that dealt with financial compensation. And the six-member panel, after two days of deliberations, found discrimination in the University's handling of the case and awarded Walters $75,000 in damages, ruling that Harvard had broken its contract with the former Facilities Maintenance worker by ignoring her sexual harassment complaints...
Khadaffy's isolation in the world community was broken only by a congratulatory telegram from Cambridge City Councilor Al Velluci...
...human specialists, who were right in 42.5% to 62.5% of cases. Still, Mycin did not have a clue that it was diagnosing a human being, nor did it have any idea what a human is. In fact, it was perfectly capable of trying to prescribe penicillin to fix a broken window. All it could do was rigidly test the applicability of various rules to pieces of data. This led critics like Joseph Weizenbaum, a professor of computer science at M.I.T., to dismiss expert systems like Mycin as "Potemkin villages. You move a little to the left...
...technologies. Johan de Kleer, a respected knowledge-system designer at Xerox, envisions an all- purpose electrical diagnostician that would have specific knowledge, such as the various laws that govern electrical flow and conductivity. But it would also have the common sense to decide whether it was faced with a broken VCR or a broken computer. To build this system, de Kleer has spent ten years codifying what he calls "qualitative" calculus that will provide the language to build "common-sense physics." The problem with common sense is that it requires the computer to skip nimbly among many different perspectives...