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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What about the New York teams? The Giants are another Empire State wanna-be team from the Meadowlands, and their superstar does drugs. The Gatorade bit never got to me, anyway. I was born in Buffalo, so the Bills rate a look. But Buffalo is Buffalo--like the kid says in A Chorus Line, "Committing suicide in Buffalo is redundant." Cleveland misses out on the same criterion. The Browns are great, but they play in Cleveland...
...Harvard keeps on [buying property in the neighborhood] at the rate it has been over the last 15 years, it will own all of Harvard Square by the middle of the next century," Dowds said...
...Schoppingen area near the Dutch border, there were 5,000 job proposals chasing just 1,500 refugees. "I am swimming in offers," said Dennis Kiesewalter, 22, a roofer. "At home I was told about unemployment here." The outpouring of jobs probably startled some West Germans as well; the unemployment rate currently stands at almost 7%. The fact is, however, that the East Germans offer employers certain advantages that most natives do not. The newcomers, by and large, are mobile, are accustomed to working harder than many West Germans and are not finicky about getting their hands dirty...
...their children register for the new school year, most parents, like Kenner's, are willing to scrimp and sacrifice. But they are increasingly outraged at the platinum price tags. For nine years, hikes in tuition and other fees have averaged roughly twice the rate of inflation, boosting bills at elite private schools like Sarah Lawrence and Princeton to the edge of the $20,000-a-year mark. And the spiral shows no sign of stopping. By 2005, according to the investment firm Paine Webber, the price of a college education is likely to climb to $62,894 annually...
...solve complex problems somewhat like human experts do -- by applying rules of thumb. (Example: when the oven gets very hot, turn the gas down a bit.) In 1980 F.L. Smidth & Co. of Copenhagen began marketing the first commercial fuzzy expert system: a computer program that controlled the fuel-intake rate and gas flow of a rotating kiln used to make cement...