Word: responded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...half the time on "experience, strength and hope." Usually the talk explains what life was like for the person while he was drinking and how it has changed for the better. Later the moderator opens the floor. He or she might ask: "Did anybody want to drink today?" Members respond, frequently dealing with personal issues. The groups have no regimen per se, only the so- called twelve steps that include such basic A.A. tenets as admitting one's powerlessness over alcohol and acknowledging the existence of a higher power than oneself...
Despite their attempt squash this militancy, the SASC/DSA leadership were dragged, like stubborn burros, into the protest, trying their best all the while to neutralize it. But students didn't respond to their calls to debate Hoppenstein or to form "three committees" to help dissolve the blockade...
While the characters and situations in most of the games are taken directly from the books on which they are based, players of interactive fiction respond to, and actually create, variances in the plot line by typing commands on the computer screen. For example, when Fahrenheit 451 is loaded into the computer, the following words appear on the screen: "You are in a clearing in dense woods in the southeast corner of Central Park. A pond is to the west. A narrow path leads north along the shore of the pond and to the north you can hear occasional...
Such verbal interplay is made possible by a parser, the part of the computer program that interprets players' commands. The first adventure-style programs contained parsers capable only of responding to simple noun-verb combinations such as Go north, Take sword, or Kill troll. In the late 1970s, however, Marc Blank, who is now a vice president at Infocom, and a colleague at M.I.T.'s lab for computer science, devised more sophisticated parsers with the aid of an artificialintelligence language called MDL (pronounced mud-dle). Then, in 1979, Blank and newly formed Infocom released Zork I, the first...
...unlikely to occur and to develop processes by which these rights are fully assured. In particular, it is the responsibility of officers of administration and instruction to be alert to the needs of the University community; to give full and fair hearing to reasoned expressions of grievances; and to respond promptly and in good faith to such expressions and to widely-expressed needs for change. In making decisions which concern the community as a whole or any part of the community, officers are expected to consult with those affected by the decisions. Failures to meet these responsibilities may be profoundly...