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Word: match (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Navratilova, displaying a strong serve and an aggressive net game, disposed of her opponent in less than an hour in the first round match. Both players later complained publicly about an umpire's call on Navratilova's last serve of the match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Pro Scoreboard | 3/16/1978 | See Source »

Robert Jastrow's Essay, "Toward an Intelligence Beyond Man's," is based on the claim that "in the 1990s ... the reasoning power of computers ... will begin to match that of the human brain." At no research laboratory that I know is there evidence for such a projection. Twenty years ago, computer conversion of spoken words to typed text was "around the corner." Today we are still unable to duplicate this simple human function, let alone reasoning. We cannot say that such things will never happen. We can say, however, that we have no scientific basis for forecasting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 13, 1978 | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...although the Communist parties have a great deal to say about who is admitted to the universities) and comprehensive health care. Sickness seldom imposes horrendous financial burdens on patients. The Physical Quality of Life Index (see map) shows that the essential human services provided by Marxist-Leninist states often match and sometimes top those in Western democracies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Socialism: Trials and Errors | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...commercial returns are as strong as the critical ones have been so far. One thing that is certain right now is that Warren Zevon can run with fast company. Randy Newman, Jackson Browne. Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon ... he is as good as the best, can match their pace. Maybe, if he goes on growing, he can even set the pace. Just one question lingers: Can he sustain it? He is such an excitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tales from the Neon Netherworld | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...consolation match, Boston University upped its season record to 27-2 with an 8-4 victory over Brown. Freshman Mark Fidler contributed a hat trick for the Terriers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.C. Tops Providence, 4-2, in ECACs | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

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