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stroke: the most important sweep in an eight. The stroke sits nearest the coxswain and sets the pace for the entire boat by determining the rate of of strokes per minute. Usually a shell will row around 36 strokes (28 for a head race) a minute but pick up the pace near the end of the race during the final...
...Stalker case was designed by the Nippon Electric Co. to overcome these deficiencies. It combines high-speed, custom- made silicon chips with a new technique for analyzing points of minutiae. Besides plotting each point, the computer also counts the number of ridge lines between that point and its four nearest neighbors. This provides a fairly good measure of the relative position of minutiae points; if two minutiae taken from a print in the police files are separated by eight ridge lines, chances are they will be separated by the same number of lines in a print that has been distorted...
...been scanned and digitized, the computer compared it with 380,000 stored in its memory and spit out the names of the ten people whose prints most closely resembled it. At the top of the list, with a probability rating four times as high as that of the nearest contender, was Ramirez. Says Elton Johnson, NEC's West Coast manager: "We knew immediately that...
...actual number of copies of single issue published nearest to filing date...
...second half is an almost entirely wordless dance ensemble piece set to Lloyd Webber's Variations, based on Paganini's A minor Caprice. One of the unseen characters in the first half, the young woman's nearest approximation to a true love (Christopher d'Amboise), prowls his way through the fleshly entertainments of Manhattan, only to decide he is ready to settle down, whereupon the young woman reappears to accept his offer. Like the woman, the young man is an outsider: as his trademark red jacket proclaims, he is from Nebraska. Like her, he is dazzled by bright lights...