Word: findings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sometimes the Coop isn't out of books that students can't find," says Assistant Professor of Government Stephen Macedo. He says some of the students in his class, Government 10, "Introduction to Political Philosophy," could not find course books because space limitations had caused the Coop to stack them at the end of the aisles...
Harvard also should use its 81-member police force to make more of an effort to fight drugs. Currently Harvard Police make drug arrests when they find narcotics after searching suspects of other crimes or after they receive tips or when they make concerted efforts to find drugs, said Harvard University Police Chief Paul E. Johnson yesterday. But, Johnson said, the University police don't have the resources to run ongoing drug investigations...
Alaska, meanwhile, has sued Exxon and the other oil companies that operate in the state for as yet unspecified damages. In a campaign of harassment (financed almost entirely from cleanup funds provided by Exxon), state officials manage to find fault at every turn. Says Steve Provant, a state cleanup coordinator: "I don't think any of the beaches are clean." Recently the state withheld approval for Exxon to use a floating incinerator it had brought to Alaska at a cost of $5 million after initially telling the company that burning was the preferred method of waste disposal...
...Wilkinson's interest as a reporter. Among them: Is it not odd that a major domestic cash crop should be so heavily dependent on imported black labor? What is going on down there? For the next four years, Wilkinson paid a number of visits to South Florida trying to find...
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...