Word: primed
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Putting the Stanford idea into actual practice, a team of computer scientists at M.I.T. led by Ronald Rivest has devised a novel approach. It involves what mathematicians call prime numbers-numbers (e.g., 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, ad infinitum) that can be divided evenly only by themselves or by 1. Under the M.I.T. scheme, each public, or encoding, key is based on the product of two large prime numbers-that is, the result of multiplying these numbers by each other. This result may be a figure several hundred digits long. The private, or decoding, key, on the other hand...
Power pop does not mean pap, even though the songs are short, catchy, cunningly melodic, modeled after-and sometimes gently mocking-prime Top 40 material. The lyrics can really sap you with a sudden, gleeful surprise. One of Lowe's best tunes, Marie Provost, sounds like an innocuous remembrance of a faded silent-screen star until the first chorus comes up. Then the sweet little ditty becomes a carbolic valentine to an actress who died destitute in a cheap hotel and whose pet dachshund dined on her undiscovered remains. "She was a winner," Lowe sings, "then she became...
...dark stretch of lagging growth and raging prices, the fabled Japanese economy is at last on the road to recovery. Production, discounted for inflation, rose 2.4% in the first quarter, or at an annual rate of 9.8%. That pace is expected to slow considerably later in the year. Still, Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda now insists that the government's ambitious 7% growth goal for this year "appears within reach." At the same time, the rate of inflation has fallen from a 1974 high of 21% to a manageable 4%. Yet simultaneously, there is a slowly dawning consensus among Japanese...
...prime reason for Japan's diminishing expectations is the increasing annoyance of the U.S. and Europe with the country's policy of saturating world markets with its goods, while tightly controlling access to its home market-the third largest after the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The result: Japan piled up a trade surplus of $17.3 billion last year, $8.1 billion of it with the U.S. alone...
...long argued, the surest way for Japan to reduce its trade surplus is to step up the expansion of its domestic economy. That would increase demand for imports as well as for domestic goods that might otherwise be exported. To this end, Prime Minister Fukuda has pledged his government to a huge deficit-spending program, which includes $22 billion for improving Japan's long neglected highways, bridges and pollution controls. Another $10.5 billion is being spent for 550,000 sorely needed new housing units. As a consequence, consumer spending is reviving, the once mountainous backlog of inventories is fast...