Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This was the year it became clear that supercomputers of the future will have not one or two or even dozens but thousands of processors working in concert. One company, Thinking Machines of Cambridge, Mass., introduced a gymnasium- size number cruncher that can perform up to 2 trillion operations a second. Now the firm just needs to find customers willing to fork over $200 million...
...gymnasium of the Longfellow Elementary School yesterday, observers, election officials, candidates, supporters and on-lookers milled about, shaking hands, slapping backs and whispering confidentially, as approximately 100 counters ate cookies from a Parent-Teachers Association bake sale and leisurely tabulated the first-place votes from Tuesday's election...
...enter the gymnasium of the Longfellow Elementary School, the tabulation center for all ballots cast in Tuesday's city election, you encounter people talking about nothing but numbers...
Talk about strange bedfellows. Even David Duke, the blow-dried Louisiana legislator and former Ku Klux Klansman, must have been taken aback when a black Pentecostal church in Memphis invited him to speak at a rally to raise money for a gymnasium to serve inner-city black youths. "Duke draws a crowd, he has a message and he says he's a Christian," explained Jimmy Boyd, the owner of a local gospel radio station, who arranged the event...
...Shimizuishi wasn't registered for the class. He had helped set up the stage in the gymnasium the night before, stopped by in the morning to observe the course and happily filled in when a set of drums became free. Minicucci stands up front and briefly describes the history of the drums, then demonstrates how to use the mallets. He breaks down the playing into melody, harmony and beat, and tells each player what to do. They give it a try. Slowly a tune emerges from the jumbled, tinny cacophony that reverberates throughout the gymnasium. He takes the players through...