Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campus who, like me, favors the John Harvard statue to the stacks, patterned boxers to plaid and Ec 10 to Sex. There we would sit, marveling at our common fantasy to be the fire-eater in the circus, and at our shared instinct that we would both play dumb if approached by a mugger--facts that would never have come to light if it had not been for Datamatch. Another success story for the cupids on the council...
...Civil Guard assigned to this village, where work is inching ahead on construction of a government-financed highway. Although the guardsmen are supposedly there as keepers of the peace, they know the mountain people regard them at best with mistrust. "To tell the truth, you have to be pretty dumb to join the Civil Guard," Corporal Lituma tells his colleague. "The pay is lousy, nobody can stand you, and you're the first one they blow up with dynamite...
...thought [today's disturbance] was kinda dumb, but the professor's comebacks were pretty funny," Cohen said...
...some old-timers, the idea of a stripped-down desktop machine harks back to the days of bulky mainframes, when all data and software were stored on big, centrally located computers and users had only "dumb" terminals on their desktops, with little or no memory or processing power. Today the operative paradigm is the so-called client-server model, where data may be stored on big file servers but the software runs on real, full-powered desktop computers. Over the years, the pendulum swings back and forth between the decentralized desktop and the centralized machine. In this instance, the idea...
...turning of the tables is widely anticipated. Japan is stimulating itself out of a long depression with interest rates near zero. What could be more stimulating than that? Japanese companies missed the personal-computer bonanza, but they may be catching up with new products that turn the dumb TV into a smart...