Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During World War II, Purcell led a group at M.I.T.'s Radiation Laboratory which developed advanced microwave radar. He was also involved peripherally with the Manhattan Project, helping to devise the instruments which recorded the results of the first atomic bomb test...
...Deep Blue team, led by senior manager C.J. Tan, has been plotting revenge ever since, and is now prepping for the rematch, which will take place in Manhattan in May. Today, in this cramped lab at T.J. Watson, Deep and Deeper are playing their first father-son game, a sort of silicon Oedipal struggle. The first 15 moves are what chess types yawn at as "standard"--established openings. Very safe. No surprises...
...question isn't nervous, though--at least not yet. "I'll have to play well and have a couple of surprises, but I feel that my chances are still superior," Kasparov says over lunch in Manhattan the next day to an audience of six, including Tan. "I know quite a lot, and I'll control my temper and my psychology...
...true. When you're confused about the future, the only people there to help guide you just got off the shuttle from Manhattan. Like the proverbial shysters at the rich widow's house, they are here to ease your pain. At Harvard and at many other top schools across America, it's hard to chart any other course. But for the country and for the consultants themselves, it's a miserable business...
Pizza is a serious thing. And good pizza is a very serious thing. At least to me, It's one of the reasons I applied to Amherst College, home of the worldrenowned Antonio's. It's the dominant incentive I have to join high school friends for their Manhattan shopping sprees; if they'll agree to eat at John's Pizzeria in the Village, I'm more than willing to watch them sort through all the used-CD's, black lights and lava lamps they can get their hands...