Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Each dormitory may vote to have up to but not exceed twenty-five parietal hours per week...
...until 7 p.m. In 1952 the hours were extended until 11 p.m. in the evening on Saturdays and finally, in 1956, women were allowed in the Houses, at the Masters' discretion, until midnight on the weekends. At Radcliffe, 1962 saw the extension of parietal hours to 25 per week, at the discretion of the dormitory...
...Cray-3 was to be his most impressive to date. People who have seen prototypes describe it as a technological tour de force. To minimize the distance electrons have to move within its components, Cray is squeezing chips capable of 16 billion calculations per second into a tight octagonal package 32 in. across, the size of a small coffee table. The computer's basic building blocks are 4-in. by 4-in. modules each bejeweled with 1,024 chips and threaded with more than a million interconnects of braided gold wire thinner than a hair...
...much harsher repression of the Cultural Revolution ended in 1976 and since Deng began his program of economic reform in 1979, the country has become for many of its inhabitants a more hospitable and prosperous place. Possibly the most remarkable indicator of this is the 132.8% rise in per capita income between 1978 and 1987. Meanwhile the economy boomed at an average annual rate of almost...
...nature has provided the tree with a way to make a comeback. Some lodgepole pinecones are serotinous: they open and release seeds only when activated by the heat generated by fires. In some areas surveyed by Yellowstone biologists, seed densities from such cone releases measure in the millions per acre. As a result, the ground will soon be thick with pine sprouts...