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Word: rao (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...units a year to 1.3 million, while the output of black-and-white sets increased almost eightfold, to 4.4 million. Refrigerator and car production has also mushroomed, softening Indian resistance to borrowing. That means boom times ahead for a fledgling consumer finance business that, according to J. Rao, Citibank's chief executive officer in India, has skyrocketed from zero to $1 billion in just three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India Puppies and Consumer Boomers | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...Rao, the national high school chess champion in 1986 and 1987, last lost to Kasparov in New York two years ago. At that tournament, Kasparov played six junior chess champions, beating three, tying two and losing to one. Experts who evaluated those games labelled Rao's the most interesting, theoretically played game...

Author: By Benjamin Dattner, | Title: Chess Champion Kasparov Crushes Harvard, 8-0 | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...Rao says that because Kasparov played eight opponents at once, his style was different this time. "The simul[taneous matches] didn't hurt his game, but he played more conservatively," he says...

Author: By Benjamin Dattner, | Title: Chess Champion Kasparov Crushes Harvard, 8-0 | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...Rao points out, "It is illegal for a human chess player to consult any reference during a game, but a computer's memory can refer to a chess dictionary, and immediately access every game played in the past...

Author: By Benjamin Dattner, | Title: Chess Champion Kasparov Crushes Harvard, 8-0 | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...says Rao, "We try to encourage women to play." He says Kasparov's comments Saturday may have angered women, and adds that even if she could not beat him, the strongest player in this weekend's tournament was Anna Akhsharumova, the 1988 U.S. women's champion...

Author: By Benjamin Dattner, | Title: Chess Champion Kasparov Crushes Harvard, 8-0 | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

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