Word: byronism
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...named in honor of Lord Byron's science-minded daughter Ada, Countess of Lovelace, whose friend and collaborator Charles Babbage was the eccentric genius of the Analytical Engine. She also lives on in what is known as Lady Lovelace's Objection, which refers not to any romantic advances by Babbage but to the age-old question of whether a machine can be made to think. Objected Lady Lovelace: "The Analytical Engine has no pretensions to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform...
...edge between economic collapse and runaway inflation, it badly needs the support of both the Congress and the Administration to curb spending, chop the deficit and prevent the nation's current economic troubles, and the bond market's jitters, from turning into something far worse. -By Christopher Byron. Reported by David Beckwith/Washington and Frederick Ungeheuer/New York
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...firm's owners now plan to go into commercial service in 1984, with monthly launches starting two years later. With space technology rapidly advancing and the competition for launches beginning to perk up, prices may start dropping out of orbit long before the satellites do. -By Christopher Byron. Reported by Jerry Hannifin/Washington and Stephen Koepp/New York
...probably significant political problems for some countries." In the U.S., the debt troubles could mean less bank lending and slightly higher interest rates. The world banking crisis would thus be one additional trouble for an American economy struggling to pull out of a long, steep recession. -By Christopher Byron...