Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...processing thousands of instructions simultaneously rather than one at a time, Hillis' machine required customized software. But with conventional supercomputers aging and unable to meet future demands, mainstream computer makers are starting to warm up to parallel computing. In perhaps the biggest endorsement yet, IBM last week formed a joint venture with Hillis' company, Thinking Machines, to incorporate parallel technology into Big Blue's line of large computers. The deal marks a major concession by Big Blue, which for years has tried to develop its own parallel computers...
...seven figures." Scarlett is the first published sequel to Gone With the Wind, though it is not the first one written. Fifteen years ago, Leigh's biographer Anne Edwards wrote Tara: The Continuation of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind. It was to be the basis for a joint film venture by Universal Pictures and MGM. When the deal soured, Edwards was left with an unpublishable manuscript, since its copyright was linked to the release of the film...
...nuclear brink that was bolder than anyone could have predicted. Bush's initiatives implicitly recognize that a world bristling with nuclear weapons ready for instant launch is not just menacing but also outdated and irrelevant, the relic of a cold war that is over against an enemy that, as Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell puts it, "has vaporized before our eyes...
Thus, forced to alter their strategy, the conferees reluctantly but overwhelmingly decided to support the Middle East peace conference that is being orchestrated by the Bush Administration. The P.L.O. leadership also accepted the notion of a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation. But as always, it left a few loopholes for further negotiation...
...although relations between Blacks and Jews at Harvard have generally been good in recent years, there is little, if any, active dialogue between the two groups. Last year's Confederate flag/swastika incident did inspire the two groups to joint action, but only because a crisis required...