Word: humbler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...himself the star of the team and, in company with Joe Morgan, Johnny Bench and Tony Perez, turned the mid-'70s into a golden age. Their habit was to rag each other and everyone else at the batting cage, a merciless system that worked for them but ruined some humbler talents. If a wittier but lesser player tried to hold his own, they would trumpet their salaries in unison. It was another way of keeping score...
Cardenas' constituency is darker and poorer and more likely to be wearing scruffy sandals than well-heeled shoes. They are often a good deal humbler than the thousands of campesinos shipped in by the ruling party to attend Salinas rallies. "All our expenses are paid by P.R.I.," said Maria Hernandez Moreno, waiting to greet Salinas in the mining town of Guanajuato. "We are brought here by bus and get lunch and sodas as well." When several hundred cheered Cardenas at a meeting in the plaza of Apaseo el Grande, an organizer proudly told the candidate, "The promise of neither...
Speed and power are what distinguish supercomputers from their humbler cousins. In the early days of the industry, speed was measured in thousands of FLOPS, an acronym for floating-point operations per second, in which the decimal point is moved in very large and small numbers. Today's largest machines are measured in gigaFLOPS, or billions of operations a second. Tomorrow's will be measured in teraFLOPS, trillions of operations a second. A single supercomputer going at teraFLOPS speed will have the power of 10 million personal computers working at full throttle...
...salvage his reputation somewhat in the financial community. Said the daily Australian Financial Review: "The savage write-downs . . . are no more than tough-minded demolition and site clearing to facilitate clean rebuilding of the group." In fact, Holmes a Court may thrive once again as the lord of a humbler empire, but his brief reign as a globe-straddling raider appears to be finished for good...
...semicelebrity, the result of his appearances in the nice-guy slot on the CBS TV show 60 Minutes, has not reached the public nuisance stage. % It is still possible not to have heard of him; he maintains just enough decent obscurity to squeak by, so far. In his other, humbler occupation, Rooney writes funny newspaper columns, and Word for Word is his fourth collection of essays. Those who missed the first three can just take a seat anywhere. Rooney is always good company. He manages to give the impression that he has just run into you at the post office...