Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That's what the Harvard men's and women's lightweight crews proved this past weekend, sweeping the San Diego Crew Classic...
...Crimson win snapped the Bulldogs' recent stranglehold on the event. Although the Yale crew did not participate in the races last year, it won the San Diego Classic championship the previous five years...
...women's lightweight crew, which returns this season after finishing second to the University of Tampa by a few hundredths of a second in the nationals last spring, opened its season by also winning in southern California. The squad successfully defended its San Diego Crew Classic Championship with an 11 second victory...
What is new is the rapidly growing appetite for supercomputer power in the private sector. In a classic case of a technology developed for a few specialized purposes finding application in all sorts of unexpected areas, supercomputing has spread from one industry to another like a benevolent virus. Semiconductor manufacturers use supercomputers to design ways to squeeze more transistors into a square-centimeter chip of silicon. Financial advisers use them to devise investment strategies of dizzying complexity. Biochemists need them to predict which molecules are worth testing as new medicines. Engineers rely on them to design new cars, jet engines...
These scenes carry hints that Redford wants to update some classic movie parables. Milagro could be Chinatown, with its diverted water supply and political-industrial intrigue. Or Silkwood, with a heroic loner fatally bucking the system. Or The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, with the greedy Anglos outsmarted by wily Hispanic outlaws who snort, "We don't need no stinkin' condos...