Word: feared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hazelwood endure all this attention and ridicule? Some friends fear the worst. "Private people are not prepared to be torn apart like this under the public microscope," warns Colorado physician Eugene O'Neill, an old friend of Hazelwood's. "I've seen patients on the verge of suicide over things like this. How much longer are we going to prey on this human being...
...human translators should have no fear that their jobs are imperiled -- at least for now. None of the new systems are yet able to take a page of text and render it unerringly into a different language without the aid of a bilingual editor who can fine-tune the output for ambiguities in the ) vocabulary, to say nothing of shades of meaning. "A truly automatic system is a dream at the moment," admits Makoto Ihara, manager of Toshiba's computer product-planning department. Says Kazunori Muraki, a leading researcher at NEC: "Machine translation is only to reduce the work involved...
They are right about the pain, but they forget about the fear. In politics -- and especially political negotiations -- abortion is never illegal...
...life forces, energized by the prospect of outlawing abortions, and pro- choice activists, galvanized by the fear of losing their rights, vow to turn every election in every state into a referendum on the issue. -- A new TIME poll finds that a majority of Americans want abortions to remain legal and disagree with the court's decision. -- Five states where the battle is hottest...
...jets rose to intercept an alien aircraft that was entering West German airspace at 9:42 a.m. last Tuesday, they encountered an empty Soviet MiG-23 fighter. Flying at an altitude of nearly 40,000 ft., the plane was without a pilot, and its canopy was gone. For fear of creating lethal falling debris, officials of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization refrained from ordering the craft shot down and instead told the U.S. pilots to escort it out to open sea. But the MiG ran out of fuel near the Belgian town of Kortrijk and crashed into a house, killing...