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Word: insightful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gives a keen insight into the political criticism of the Franco era," Jonathan E. Lopez '91 said...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Films that Flouted Franco | 9/30/1988 | See Source »

...researchers used this insight to stage the first Core War: a series of mock battles between opposing armies of computer programs. Two players would write a number of self-replicating programs, called "organisms," that would inhabit the memory of a computer. Then, at a given signal, each player's organisms did their best to kill the other player's -- generally by devouring their instructions. The winner was the player whose programs were the most abundant when time was called. At that point, the players erased the killer programs from the computer's memory, and that was that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Invasion of the Data Snatchers | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...This news is no news," said DeputyUndersecretary of Education Bruce M. Carnes. "Idon't see any end [to the spiraling tuition] insight...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: College Tuition Increases Once Again Exceed Inflation | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

...half his age and he was incapable of breaking anything off, so he would string his admirers along even after he had found a replacement. Huffington cites these pyschological traits as evidence of Picasso's fatally flawed nature. But her analysis stems as much from animosity as from psychological insight...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Killing the Legends | 7/22/1988 | See Source »

Throughout the book, Brinkley reveals with his typical biting wit, keen insight and damning criticism many of the not-so-heroic aspects of Washington during these years: a rapidly expanding bureaucracy and its petty infighting over exceedingly short supplies and space; a rigidly circumscribed, deeply impoverished and grossly ignored Black community; a non-existent municipal government that was in effect run by one of the nation's most outspoken racists, Mississippi Sen. Theodore Bilbo, chairman of the obscure Senate District Committee beginning in 1944; a financial elite far more intent on improving their social status by flattering their fellow...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Washington D.C.Remembered | 7/22/1988 | See Source »

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