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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week it was learned that U.S. and Soviet negotiators in Geneva took a major step toward verification arrangements several weeks ago, when they agreed on inspection controls for the elimination of chemical weapons. American officials welcomed the accord as further evidence that after decades of failure, enormous progress is being made across the board on the thorny verification issues so central to all arms control...
Finally, there are those who argue that litigation actually slows the progress of medicine. "Innovative techniques don't get used very often for this reason," says George Miller, an orthopedic surgeon in Washington, N.C., who last year won a malpractice suit that had dragged on for "eight long years." Doctors find themselves taking a more rote approach, what some call "cookbook medicine." By following standard procedures as much as possible, the physician may hope to avoid any controversy that might arise in court -- and thus steers clear of promising, if less proven technologies and treatments...
MOSCOW--President Mikhail S. Gorbachev said yesterday the strikes in Soviet coalfields were the biggest test of his four-year economic reform plan, and he called for a shake-up of the local councils which are often blamed for stopping progress...
...report produced by Director of the Summer School Peter S. Buck instead proved to be little more than a progress report on the school's development and a primer on its history and structure...
Considering the complexity of the task, the progress in machine translation has been startling. Essentially, the translating machine analyzes the syntax of an English sentence, determining its grammatical structure and identifying, for example, the subject, verb, objects and modifiers. Then the words are translated by an English-Japanese dictionary. Next, another part of the computer program analyzes the resulting awkward jumble of words and meanings, and generates an intelligible sentence based on the rules of Japanese syntax and the machine's understanding of what the original English sentence meant...