Word: offing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard, though, got very little help from its bench on Saturday. Freshman center Onnie Mayshak chipped in with three points and five rebounds on 14 minutes of play. Mayshak, however, was the only non-starter to score.
Saturday marked the 43rd meeting of the two teams. The Crimson holds a 32-11 advantage in the series.
The professors are requesting "treble damages for willful infringement of the two patents and an injunction prohibiting Ask Jeeves from making, using or selling the Internet search products," according to a statement released by the professors' lawyers.
Common questions or phrases are stored in a computer database, and when a user asks a question that matches any of the descriptions, the appropriate information is called up.
Ask Jeeves, which licenses its technology to the Altavista search engine, was the first company to implement a question-answering service of this kind.