Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whatever the legal consequences of the NRDC report, a cherished American myth has taken a serious, perhaps fatal, blow. Americans spent $4 billion on 3.4 billion gallons of bottled water last year, despite the fact that, as most people realize, the whole concept behind the fad is completely absurd...
...from Harvard to its employees, thereby taking away the University's power to reinvest in new long-term capital goods, which in turn, could increase the productivity of Harvard in order to increase the real wages on a sustainable basis. Some might find the argument unconvincing simply because the concept of productivity is vague...
...from Harvard to its employees, thereby taking away the University's power to reinvest in new long-term capital goods, which in turn, could increase the productivity of Harvard in order to increase the real wages on a sustainable basis. Some might find the argument unconvincing simply because the concept of productivity is vague...
...genetics. Therefore, studies of the habits of prehistoric females help us see what roles are suitable for modern females. But my question is, Why would any intelligent person with freedom of choice, living at the very end of the 20th century, want to base her actions, roles and self-concept on those of cavewomen? It would make about as much sense to base her actions on those of chimpanzees. ROBERT REESE Bulawayo, Zimbabwe...
Does this concept--a fairly rudimentary assemblage of hardware performing prodigious and multifaceted tasks according to the dictates of the instructions fed to it--sound familiar? It certainly didn't in 1937, when Turing's seminal paper, "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem," appeared in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Turing's thoughts were recognized by the few readers capable of understanding them as theoretically interesting, even provocative. But no one recognized that Turing's machine provided a blueprint for what would eventually become the electronic digital computer...