Word: real
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Real Estate (HRE), the company which manages the University's non-academic property holdings, has pushed a plan to turn the Gulf site, one of the last tracts of undeveloped property in the vicinity of Harvard Square, into a hotel to house guests of the University. When Spence endorsed the plan--with the understanding that the site will eventually be sold to the Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS)--HRE cleared a crucial hurdle...
...despite Bush's tough rhetoric, the plan is flawed because it lacks adequate funding. It is all bark with little bite. Still Bush's message--that the United States should wage a real war on drugs--is a serious one that all American citizens, including members of the Harvard community, should take seriously...
What is fuzzy logic? The original concept, developed in the mid-'60s by Lofti Zadeh, a Russian-born professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, is that things in the real world do not fall into the neat, crisp categories defined by traditional set theory, like the set of even numbers or the set of left-handed baseball players. In standard Aristotelian logic, as in computer science, membership in a class or set is not a matter of degree. Either a number is even, or it is not. But this on-or-off, black-or- white...
...Japan, as in the U.S., baseball is a game of runs, hits and errors. But Japanese teams know the real ingredient for victory on the diamond is plenty...
Cornwell is the half-brother of spy novelist John Le Carre (real name: David Cornwell), and perhaps has a special interest in the genre. Though Cornwell's story was front-paged in his London paper, the Independent, British intelligence experts feigned boredom and suggested that Soviet spooks were simply trying to stir up a bit of mischief...