Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hitech shares a special table, strategically located near a phone jack and an electrical outlet, with a second computer contestant named BP. BP runs on a Compaq PC, a crowd pleaser with its flashy electronic chessboard. Hitech is not even physically present. An ungainly-looking brute, with circuit boards that poke out of a metal rack like truncated wings, Hitech remains in Pittsburgh, hidden away in a laboratory on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University, where Berliner teaches computer science...
...draws a tougher player. Berliner becomes visibly nervous when he discovers that the opponent is Grand Master Sergei Kudrin, a slender Soviet emigre with long wavy hair and sleepy eyes. Kudrin has been matched against Hitech in tournament play twice before -- and has beaten it both times. A large crowd of onlookers presses in around the table. "This is going to be a wild game," Berliner predicts...
...slight drizzle fell, the crowd chanted, "Diversity is the way! We won't wait another day!" and then listened to speeches by professors, protesters and representatives of several minority student associations at the Law School...
Like an Ollie North of the pinstripe set, Michael Milken was the biggest draw on Capitol Hill last week, even though he barely said a word. Eager for a rare glimpse of perhaps the most powerful financier in the U.S., a crowd began to gather at dawn outside the House hearing room where he was to appear. The spectacle, however, was short-lived. The hearing promptly adjourned after Milken, 41, refused three times to answer questions, claiming his Fifth Amendment right to protection from self-incrimination...
...manager, an Attorney General and then the younger brother to whom the torch was passed. Again, as a brother, he had to battle past his own dark night of the soul to take up a doomed burden, knowing that every time he rose to speak in front of a crowd it was to stare his own death in the eye. But the Kennedy magic, both a blessing and a curse, attached to him, and he quickly became a Senator, then a rebel candidate for President. Almost as quickly, he too was killed...