Word: drill
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...would not go away, of course, and my roommate, Jack Adikes, and I and perhaps a dozen others constituted the ROTC unit, commanded by a Connecticut insurance man called back to service. We had blue-labeled uniforms and marched up and down in a semblance of close-order drill. Then, late in the year, several of is went off to Commonwealth Avenue to sign up, joining something called the Enlisted Reserve Corps. It gave us a one to start our serial numbers (draftees got a three) and let us volunteer for induction as soon as practical in terms of course...
Maybe the idea here was to dampen the economic insecurity induced by Deep Blue. During the Kasparov match, there were many references to John Henry, who in legend died trying to defend his job against the incessant march of technology--in his case, the steam-powered drill. After pondering that outcome, and Deep Blue's triumph, people naturally find it reassuring to be reminded that chess is an artificial endeavor, hardly central to our lives or our livelihoods, and that computers still can't make meaningful small talk...
...this sense, the real-world competition is rarely human vs. machine, as it was with Kasparov. It's one kind of tool vs. another kind of tool.Thus the steam drill wasn't really challenging John Henry; it was challenging his sledgehammer. It's the guy using the steam drill who was challenging John Henry. Similarly, the bank teller's competitor is not so much the atm as the people who design the machine or those who build it or service it. Functionally speaking, they're just bank tellers using new tools. And that's all the old bank teller really...
CONVICTED. DELMAR SIMPSON, 32, Army drill sergeant whose controversial trial for raping six trainees exposed the combustive interplay of sex and power in the Army's ranks; of 18 counts of rape; in Aberdeen, Md. Rejecting Simpson's defense that the sex was consensual, the six-person military jury sent an unequivocal message that any sexual relations between superiors and subordinates constitute rape. Simpson faces up to life in prison...
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Maryland: Ignoring the prosecution's request to give Army Staff Sergeant Delmar Simpson life behind bars, a court-martial jury sentenced the former drill sergeant to 25 years in prison. Jurors also ordered that Simpson be dishonorably discharged and reduced to the rank of private E-1. The prosecution made an impassioned plea for jurors to deliver the maximum penalty of life in prison, arguing that it would "send a message" to other military personnel. Incredibly, Simpson's defense attorney, Frank Spinner, countered that Simpson's exposure had taught him a lesson and that the jury should...