Word: rollings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...verve, the understanding and the imagination to grab it is the hour's most intriguing question. It will take a touch of humility, a bit of conciliation and no little amount of old-fashioned soft soap. If he misses the opportunity, then in all likelihood the system will roll by and maybe even over him while he huddles in the White House, a giant become pitiful...
...combined government and industry effort to develop new supercomputers. The consortium's member firms agreed to pool the results of jointly financed long-term research conducted at an Austin center on such subjects as artificial intelligence and the making of silicon microchips. The original MCC roster was an honor roll of technological titans, including Digital Equipment, Advanced Micro Devices, Honeywell and National Semiconductor. Subsequently other respected firms, including 3M and Boeing, joined, and the current membership numbers...
...tanks roll past a couple of months ago," says one, referring to the popular uprising against Marcos, "but that was only once." Outside the American embassy, however, enormous concrete flower pots have appeared overnight, apparently as protection against truck bombers. Something, the Aussies admit, could be afoot...
...Somerville Democrat said he was at the Statehouse 248 days in 1984--more than any of the other 159 state representatives that year-despite a 40.6 percent roll-call attendance record...
...went wrong under clear skies at Minneapolis last March 31? Two air- traffic controllers, sitting side by side in the terminal tower, each failed to realize what the other had done. One had cleared the taxiing plane to cross the runway. The other had told the second plane to roll toward takeoff...