Word: grandly
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...fact, the keyboards combine the challenge of a computer and a Steinway grand yet are relatively easy to use. The boards can produce a dazzling range of musical effects, sounding jazzy or elegant at the flick of a button or a switch. And though top-end pro keyboards can cost upwards of $3,000, general consumer models for the "hobbyist" market usually go for a couple of hundred dollars. Besides having model numbers that make them sound like racing cars, boards like the Yamaha DX7IIFD look like the instrument panel of a new Ferrari prototype. The Roland...
...national Republican leaders over what the residents of Metairie, who populate Louisiana's 81st legislative district, had wrought. Some 78% of the district's 21,464 registered voters, only 52 of whom are black, had turned out to give a vacant statehouse seat to David Duke, 38, a former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan who recently converted to the G.O.P. As Duke took his oath of office, his followers cheered from the gallery and state Republican legislators accepted him into their caucus...
...East was mild. Though a conference of theologians meeting in Mecca denounced Rushdie as a "heretic and renegade" and reportedly demanded he be tried in absentia in an Islamic country, others argued that the case had been blown out of proportion. Hassan Saab, an adviser to the Sunni Muslim Grand Mufti of Lebanon, called Rushdie "an insignificant writer who has attacked a great prophet." He asked, "What harm has befallen the Prophet?" In Egypt the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Mosque, Sheik Gad el-Haq Ali Gad el-Haq, noted that the net effect of the furor had been...
...people at the front of the line were having a grand time. Although some of them had been standing out in the cold since before dawn, they were practically guaranteed seats in muchcoveted section 14. A foursome sat at a portable table and played a heated game of cards that began a couple of hours before. After downing a few bottles of peppermint schnapps, they felt no pain, nor chill, for that matter...
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...