Word: consistent
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Most computers built in the past 40 years were designed to do one thing at a time. Following the basic concept conceived by John von Neumann and his colleagues in 1945, they consist of a single, high-speed central processing unit connected to an array of memory cells. "The two-part architecture keeps the silicon devoted to processing wonderfully busy," says Hillis. "But this is only 2% or 3% of the silicon area. The other 97% (the memory bank) sits idle...
...will make up the second. "There will be two equals," insists Needham Chairman Keith Reinhard, who will head the DDB-Needham network. "There's not going to be a low-priced spread here." A third entity, called the Diversified Agency Group and headed by DDB President Barry Loughrane, will consist of specialty marketing and advertising services...
...contras, who President Reagan describes as"freedom fighters," consist of three majorfighting units, including the FDN. The bill togrant aid to the contras was defeated in the Houseof Representatives but passed the Senate. It isagain pending debate in the House
...Gaddafi dead to rights. In a Wednesday speech in Atlanta, for example, General Bernard Rogers, supreme NATO commander in Europe, said the U.S. had "indisputable evidence" that the bombing was the work of a Libyan terrorist network. Though no one would disclose it publicly, the evidence is known to consist largely of intercepted messages from the Libyan capital, Tripoli, to the "people's bureau" (as Libya calls its diplomatic missions) in East Berlin, which is believed to have dispatched a terrorist to bomb the disco. One message, sent a few hours after the blast, guardedly congratulated the East Berlin bureau...
...Republican team will consist of the club's president, Kris W. Kobach '88, and Gregory A. Dohi '87, editor-in-chief of the Salient which is a conservative campus publication. But members of the opposing SASC team will field an extra speaker at the 8 p.m. divestment showdown...