Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only eleven years ago that Louise Brown became the first baby to start life outside a mother's womb. Since then, the business of in-vitro fertilization -- conception in a test tube -- has grown even faster than Louise has. Some 200 IVF clinics have sprung up in the U.S., and they have been responsible for more than 5,000 births. The surging demand stems from the high incidence of infertility: about 1 married couple in 12 has not been able to conceive a child despite a year of trying. IVF dangles one last shred of hope before some of these...
Moore said GSAS might have grown faster hadPresident Bok not expressed fears about theUniversity as a whole becoming too large...
...grand masters, but its real strength comes from two high-speed computer chips, plus a unique strategy that allows it to project 20 moves ahead along the most promising lines of play. How fast would a computer have to be to overtake + Kasparov? Some 100 to 1,000 times faster, says Feng-Hsiung Hsu, the Taiwan- born graduate student who designed Deep Thought's chips. "It's not out of the question, " says Hsu. "But it would take a few years...
...bets on them because he doesn't gamble. Last year when his aged Audi expired, he agonized for weeks before acquiring a new Mercedes- Benz. The symbolism of so expensive a car bothers this man of independent means who cuts his own hair (badly) because "it's cheaper and faster." With a reporter he knows well, he can be drawn into conversation about his innermost thoughts. Still, he refuses to confess ownership of the Mercedes...
...drop from 44% to 36%. For those in their 30s, the rate fell from 61% to 53%. The increase in home prices has far outpaced the ability of young people to save the necessary down payment. A prime reason is the price of rents, which have risen even faster than home prices in many cities. Now interest rates are rising as a barrier once again. The average 30-year mortgage rate climbed to 10.56% last week, vs. 9.84% a year ago, as the Federal Reserve tightened up credit in response to renewed signs of inflation...