Word: protectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before that day arrives, the computer has quite a bit to learn about life. Put to picking ideal marriage partners, a computer has selected brother and sister. Asked, "How do amphibians protect themselves?", a computer at California's System Development Corp. typed out its reply: "Roman soldiers protected themselves by locking shields." The computer had, of course, mindlessly confused key words. Though its memory units give it an impressive quantitative advantage, the computer is qualitatively inferior to any schoolboy...
...American officer so that his thousand-year-old family will not die out. The fanatic Major Falconer refortifies medieval fortifications against a German tank attack that nobody else believes will come; the scholarly Captain Beckman buries the statuary and moves the paintings to the ancient dungeons to protect them...
...doubts. In fact, he labeled the first electric coffee mills off the assembly line "Moulin X" - literally, Mill X - to protect the reputation of his established firm, Moulin-Légumes, in case the venture did not work out. It did, and Mantelet's firm has since become France's largest manufacturer of electrical appliances, proudly bearing the name Moulinex. Last week at Paris' 34th International des Arts Menagers, where 1,800 appliance makers from 26 countries showed their wares, Moulinex took another step forward by announcing plans to add ten new household appliances to its present...
...pact is hard to enforce if anyone really wants to circumvent it; Boden-hausen's organization has no legal weapons against transgressors, simply passes along complaints to governments involved. Any member of the pact can unilaterally exempt specific products from patent protection; Italy has done so with Pharmaceuticals, thus enabling Italian firms to copy the world's new drugs as fast as they are invented. Several big nations, such as India, Pakistan, Argentina and Chile, remain outside the system, some of them figuring that they invent too little to profit from it. Nor does the pact protect artistic...
...Alabama today, nearly every person, white black, has been converted into a combattant, soldier with lines to protect or fortresses to form. For the Negroes, the conversion process is been a blessing. It has infused purpose and implexity into lives that would otherwise be said and hopeless. For whites, the conversion has been a tragedy, compressing three-dimensional into flat stereotypes...