Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...October 19, the stock market dropped more than 500 points, the largest one-day drop in Wall Street's history. The chief actors in that demise were small computers, automatically selling and buying, buying and selling, huge blocks of shares. Without any human making any particular decision, machines followed a logic of their...
According to Principato, his supervisor, Carol Wotschak, the chief medical technologist at UHS, has been putting his mail into a specimen box containing human excrement every day for the past year. Wotschak could not be reached for comment...
...even the most hard-line conservatives should be willing to admit that the Soviet Union's current changes represent progress. To argue that a virulent anti-communist like Reagan has suddenly turned naive is ludicrous. Such assertions carry about as much weight as the Kremlin's denunciations of human rights abuses in non-socialist countries...
...evidence supports what Floyd knew. In fact, just in time for the basketball playoffs, Stanford Psychologist Amos Tversky released a study that seems to make a myth of the shooter's hot hand. "Very often," says Tversky, "the search for explanation in human affairs is a rejection of randomness." But randomness has a difficult time explaining Larry Bird. Stumbling through the lane in the deciding game of Boston's series with Atlanta, Bird made such an improbable wrong-handed hook shot that he demanded the ball back on the next play, explaining later, "I wanted...
Still, the President was determined to keep human rights at the forefront of the summit. In a speech in Helinski, he charged that "Soviet practice does not -- or does not yet -- measure up" to international standards on human rights. Reagan has praised Mikhail Gorbachev's liberalized emigration policy, but called for laws guaranteeing such rights. Said Reagan: "What are we to think of the continued suppression of those who wish to practice their religious beliefs...