Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About one quarter of the students, he says, do not get their first choice. So why not arrange it so that this 26 percent is divided equally among the Houses which are not yet filled. In other words, he explains, dividing the unhappy people evenly would prevent the creation of one house full of people who do not want to be there...
...watched expectantly as a motion to endorse him was introduced by Hazel Dukes, president of the N.A.A.C.P.'s New York State chapter. Former Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton proceeded to voice his lingering qualms about Mondale's refusal to support a specific funding level for a job-creation program. Suddenly dissension filled the room, with some participants loudly agreeing with Sutton's reservations and others demanding a vote...
Bookstore shelves sag under the weight of volumes quantifying what computers will do for our math, medicine and management, but The Second Self explores a broader futurescape. Like the telescope, which forced man to accept a less exalted position in creation, says Turkle, the computer is challenging the manner in which we think about our ourselves. "The question," she writes, "is not what will the computer be like in the future, but instead, what will we be like...
...creation of a Joint Liaison Group would be a compromise between Britain's desire to have no monitoring body during the transition period and China's demand for a commission that would operate as a kind of shadow government. According to Howe, the group would include five Chinese and five British representatives; it would meet in Peking, London and Hong Kong until 1988 and then establish its principal base in Hong Kong until 2000. It would try to ease the transition from British to Chinese rule both before and after 1997, and to ensure full compliance with...
...disclosure of IBM standards could free Europe's computer makers from a trap of their own creation. Firms such as France's Bull and West Germany's Siemens have fallen behind U.S. and Japanese rivals partly because they have insisted on separate standards that have isolated their systems. Now access to IBM specifications will enable European firms to end their insularity by designing machines that communicate with...