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Word: englishness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Evita shone gloriously in rhetoric as a visiting second-rate leader. She was feted by everyone, but a snubbing by the English and her own illness struck down the optimistic tenor of the "Rainbow Tour...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Tales of a Wimp President | 8/4/1989 | See Source »

...envoy to Australia, and his sometime partner Joseph Zappala, 56, is proposed for Spain. Both are members of Team 100, a roster of G.O.P. contributors who gave more than $100,000 to party causes in the past year. On his qualifications form, under the heading "Languages Spoken," Sembler listed "English (fluent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Picking Lemons for the Plums? | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

...shutdowns of the area's schools. Israeli authorities, charging that the schools had become hotbeds of political unrest, not only barred some 330,000 elementary and secondary school children and 17,000 university students from attending courses but even outlawed private classes and kindergarten. Says Elham, a West Bank English teacher: "My children do nothing except watch TV or play cards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Plight of Palestinian Schools | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

Bonang graduated from Colby College in 1987 with a degree in English...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Bonang Named Assistant SID | 7/28/1989 | See Source »

Considering the complexity of the task, the progress in machine translation has been startling. Essentially, the translating machine analyzes the syntax of an English sentence, determining its grammatical structure and identifying, for example, the subject, verb, objects and modifiers. Then the words are translated by an English-Japanese dictionary. Next, another part of the computer program analyzes the resulting awkward jumble of words and meanings, and generates an intelligible sentence based on the rules of Japanese syntax and the machine's understanding of what the original English sentence meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Trying To Decipher Babel | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

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