Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bidding starts high and goes higher -roughly double last year's prices. Explanations vary. "We're totally greed motivated," jokes a restaurant owner from Seattle. "The only reason I'm paying $40,000 for a paneled room is because it wil help raise my take from $1 million to $2 million." Says Bob Snow, owner of the Rosie O'Grady entertainment-cum-preservation complexes in Orlando and Pensacola: "At the first auction I paid $4,500 for a real historic bar from Chicago. This year ordinary bars are bringing $45,000. 1 don't know...
...reason for Peking's retreat to more modest goals became clear during the two-week session of the congress, when precise statistics on the Chinese economy were released for the first time since 1959. They showed that the country had a gross national product of $360 billion in 1978, compared with $2.107 trillion for the U.S. The average Chinese buys only $6 worth of goods per month, excluding food. Out of a population of an estimated 960 million, only about 95 million people receive regular wages. For the others, who are paid partly in rice and other grains, Chen...
Dean Fox said yesterday one reason the University only "provisionally" recognized the assembly "is that this issue has to be worked out before we can fully recognize the assembly...
...repeat her sensitive performance from Rocky; she tends to spend most of her time staring dumbly at Stallone's mashed face or dead-panning hokey lines. As a solicitous wife concerned about her husband's battered body, she had opposed his return to the ring. But for no reason, after recovering from a coma caused by complications in childbirth (little Rockies for the next movie), she tells him all she wants him to do is "Win!" Maybe it's to be expected, but you'd hope Stallone could have come up with something more believable...
...marvels of the miracle-chip revolution, home computers have remained expensive toys ($500 to $2,000) purchased mainly by hobbyists and electronics buffs. Reason: a paucity of programs available to make the investment worthwhile. Now, however, a department store of information called, appropriately enough, The Source is available to anyone with a simple terminal screen and a telephone coupler. Created by William von Meister, 37, chairman of Telecomputing Corp. of America, the new data bank is a pool of information from more than 2,000 programs...