Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when Rob says, "Satellite search," the Scott machine takes a numerical snapshot of the sound pattern and compares that picture with patterns Rob has previously recorded. When the machine finds a matching formation, it sends the computer the corresponding command. With some artful jiggering, Gary and Ted have extended HAL'S vocabulary to more than 280 words...
...time, in 1980, 64% cited TV, 44% newspapers, 18% radio, 5% magazines and 4% "talking to people." But that adds up to 135%! Well, multiple answers were permitted. A Roper spokesman says that "whatever the deficiencies" of the question, repeating it the same way each time provides a consistent pattern. Yes, but why can't Roper ask, "Well, which is it-do you get most of your news from TV or from the papers?" That would be forcing an answer and lead to impure results, says the Television Information Office, which hires Roper. Leo Bogart, a sociologist who heads...
...rest of the meet followed a similar pattern, with Columbia falling short and Harvard grabbing seven of 13 first-place finishes...
...HISTORIC Stockholm Conference in 1972, conservationists first made the world aware that natural resources are finite. The meeting kicked off environmentalist movements in number of countries, as people and groups began to realize that the traditional global pattern of resource consumption without regard for the future could lead to disaster. Today, a relatively small circle of concerned scientists have launched a similar campaign to end the wholesale destruction of a little-known endangered resource--the tropical rain forest...
...middle-level people. The next step is higher management." Minority journalists are not so sure. Les Payne, national editor of Long Island's Newsday and president of the National Association of Black Journalists, contends: "Some papers may be better than others, but we still have to break the pattern of inertia." -By William A. Henry III. Reported by Steven Holmes/Los Angeles and Don Winbush/Chicago