Word: expertness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter why Mao initiated the Cultural Revolution, what is most interesting today is that the Chairman's successors appear totally uninterested in the question. For the party's present leaders, so expert at rewriting history that they regularly crop from official photographs whoever is currently out of favor, it has been enough to blame a few scapegoats for a decade of chaos and leave it at that...
Although only about 6 percent of Law School graduates pursue public-interest careers, many more spends summers working for prosecutors and battered women's shelters. Students say a full-time expert on public-interest law is essential because of the difficulty of finding such public service work...
...There's prestige and money associated with large firms," says second-year student Jason Adkins, who has been a leader in the movement. "They come recruit you. For public-interest, you have to have an expert on placement. A few seminars...
...every last barrel in its inventory. "I'm not going to speculate how much oil is left and where it is," says Sexton. As much as 25% of the crude may have evaporated in the early days after the spill. Much of the rest, guesses Lars Foyn, a fishery expert with the Marine Research Institute in Bergen, Norway, has become diluted in the water and disappeared. Most of the experts in Alaska privately agree with that dispiriting theory, but no one wants to be the first to say that the remaining oil has seeped irretrievably into the ecosystem...
Fuzzy logic began to find applications in industry in the early '70s, when it was teamed with another form of advanced computer science called the expert system. A product of research into artificial intelligence, expert systems solve complex problems somewhat like human experts do -- by applying rules of thumb. (Example: when the oven gets very hot, turn the gas down a bit.) In 1980 F.L. Smidth & Co. of Copenhagen began marketing the first commercial fuzzy expert system: a computer program that controlled the fuel-intake rate and gas flow of a rotating kiln used to make cement...