Word: logics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...important details get explained in exclusive conference calls. No matter how small investors try to level the field, it always ends up tilted. Get ready for another uphill climb. In the coming weeks, companies will begin reporting second-quarter results, and some stocks will react in ways that defy logic. Why? They are being moved by a relatively new Wall Street device, the "whisper number." Trust me. This whisper is more exciting than anything a dream date might pant into your...
...deadly as ever. And since the entire scientific case against smoking is premised on dose-related data (e.g., the stronger the yields of the harmful ingredients in each cigarette and the greater the smoker's total intake of them, the higher the risk of dying prematurely), all medical logic suggests that forcing the manufacturers to reduce the toxic potency of their product could significantly reduce the horrific toll it now exacts. Under the proposed settlement, the FDA is reportedly to be granted the power to modify cigarettes in this fashion over time--without the industry's fighting it tooth...
Galison studies the history of science, mainly events from twentieth-century physics. He focuses on the role of scientific instruments. He authored How Experiments End in 1987 and Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics...
...final reason, Wright-Swadel echoes the tried-and-true logic of President Clinton...
...Blue supercomputer in Philadelphia, I expressed my surprise and amazement at seeing a new kind of intelligence. I referred to Game 1, in which the computer's decision to sacrifice a pawn, based strictly on the machine's calculations, coincided with what a human would have done using human logic. Thus I stepped into a discussion of whether artificial intelligence has to be an exact copy of human thinking procedures or whether we should judge intelligence by the end result. I viewed the match with an improved version of Deep Blue as an opportunity to study this further...