Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...possible for a group of chess and computer wonks to build a machine that can beat the world's reigning chess champion. Deep Blue didn't and couldn't learn a single thing throughout the match, as it relied on its sheer processing power to calculate its next move. Relentless computation is not artificial intelligence...
...would take all 146 of them to explain how a place with so much faith could lose a turn-of-the-century downtown to nearly biblical disaster while the Wal-Mart on the edge of town stayed high and dry. The Grand Forks Herald, its offices swamped by relentless Red River tides and then finished off by raging fire, moved to new quarters without skipping an edition and began publishing page-long lists of personal messages phoned in by townsfolk--messages such as "To Mary O'Leary from Vicky Misialek: If you need a place to stay, please call." Same...
Whether it is denial, lingering shock or stout prairie faith, such optimism was as relentless as the river, even after a week without running water or plumbing. Residents would call a radio station, ask about a certain block of a specific street and learn that their house was under 8 ft. of water. "Well, alrighty then. Thank you very much...
...Saturday Night Live made fun of Chelsea's hair and braces. The numerous late night talk shows couldn't stop joking about her looks. The culmination of this relentless sarcasm was a cartoon in the Los Angeles Times that viciously mocked her appearance. Thankfully, this cartoon provoked protest. In total, 500 people wrote demanding that Chelsea be left alone. Even parodies of Amy Carter hadn't focused on her looks. And the media realized that a thirteen-year-old child, whoever her parents may be, should be left alone...
...citizens of the twentieth century, we have seen the mixed blessings of the relentless march of scientific "progress." Science conquered polio, but it also gave us the atom bomb. We live in a time when scientific ingenuity lights up our eyes with wonder even as it frightens us with the prospect of technological terror. The stinging criticism of Dolly is in part the sigh of a world community exhausted by the ethical dilemmas presented by science in the last sixty years...