Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, the Crimson (7-3 overall, 6-3 EISL, 5-2 Ivy League) finished the dual meet season with both a victory and some fast swims...
Deep Thought was fine-tuned with the moves of 900 games played by human 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...
That dream has been steadily receding for many Americans, primarily young people. Since 1979, periods of high interest rates and fast-rising prices in many parts of the U.S. have caused the rate of home ownership in the 25-29 age group to 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...
Yesterday some 50 students gathered at Bok's Mass Hall office to protest apartheid. That rally marked the end of a 24-hour fast by more than 500 participants that sought to publicize the fate of political prisoners in South Africa...
Also to nobody's surprise, Washington's troubles are not unique. America is losing the war on drugs fast; in the 1980s, cocaine use in this country has quadrupled, billions of dollars have been siphoned from the economy and thousands have lost their lives...