Word: half
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these people." But, he adds, "it becomes different if someone says, 'I've sold my house, and I'm coming to get you.' " De Becker and his staff of 31 are currently keeping tabs on 5,400 people who may pose a safety hazard to his clients; about half are considered serious threats...
Speaking to the national legislature, the Supreme Soviet, Gorbachev said party and government bodies as well as official trade unions should meet immediately to analyze the two-week strike that at its peak idled half the Soviet Union's one million workers in the coal industry and deprived vital factories of fuel...
...complaint that professors teaching in the Summer School typically express about the courses is their brevity--summer session is slightly more than half a regular semester...
...TRANSAC is one of more than half a dozen machine-translation systems being energetically developed in Japan. With their strong thirst for information from other nations and a growing need to disseminate their documents around the world, the Japanese urgently require computers that can translate. A few machines, such as the Toshiba model and Fujitsu's Atlas system, are already in operation, helping Japanese companies like Mazda translate technical material. A powerful computer called SHALT, designed by IBM Japan, is being used extensively for in-house translations. In 1988 SHALT converted four IBM manuals from English into Japanese. This year...
...directed by Richard Donner and written by Jeffrey Boam. This installment features a surfboard decapitation, death by carpenter's nail gun, a bomb wired to a very sensitive seat (plot device lifted from Elmore Leonard's novel Freaky Deaky), and reduction of the Afrikaaner diaspora by about one-half. As Riggs tells Murtaugh, "We're back! We're bad! You're black! I'm mad!" Mad to the max. Riggs may not know how to spell apartheid, but he knows whom he hates. He even knows how to strike a blow for American property values. When the Boers perforate...