Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...principal scourges of the century ?Communism and Freudianism?are staunch. Nabokov sees both as dreadful infringements upon creative freedom. "The social or economic structure of the ideal state is of little concern to me," he says. "My desires are modest. Portraits of the head of government should not exceed a postage stamp in size. No torture and no executions. No music, except coming through earphones or played in theaters...
...maneuver that threatens their own economies. The French are bound to feel that the Germans are trying to force them into devaluing just after their June 1 presidential elections. The British rightly fear that their fragile pound will come under renewed speculative attack. Britain's foreign debts far exceed its reserves of gold and foreign money, and sterling may be able to cling to its $2.40 rate only if international creditors give the British more time to repay...
...does that he would leave probability (or odds) estimation to men, with computers aggregating the results of those human estimates. Second, I wish to take issue with your inclusion of the common fear-allaying disclaimer, "Whatever rudimentary reason a machine possesses is owed entirely to its creator and cannot exceed...
Surely you would not argue that the dirt-moving power of a bulldozer cannot exceed that of its maker. Why, then, cannot the thinking power of a computer exceed that of its programmer? The machine has the advantage of great speed, phenomenal concentration, superb memory and relentless attention to detail. Few men can say the same. Remember that Edison described genius as consisting of 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration. It would appear that computers are further along that road than most humans...
Britain's economy is considerably weaker than Jenkins admitted. Technically bankrupt, with foreign debts that greatly exceed its reserves of gold and foreign currencies, the country depends on international loans to support the pound. Sterling's devaluation 17 months ago was supposed to give Britain time to overcome its chronic trade deficit, the main source of its precarious financial condition. Instead, the country wound up with a 1968 trade deficit of $1.1 billion, and the red ink has continued to flow this year. Last week the Board of Trade reported a March trade deficit of $124.8 million...