Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exist, the lure of siphoning off money may still prove to be great for a few people. More administrative control is probably not desirable either, since most likely the financially secure clubs would simply declare independence from the University so they would not be subject to oversight. Further, the sheer number of grants given out by the Undergraduate Council to organizations each semester shows that club finances are often unstable from year to year and that big bank accounts remain just a dream for most groups...
...With sheer brute force: calculation and evaluation at cosmic speeds. At the height of the game, Deep Blue was seeing about 200 million positions every second. You and I can see one; Kasparov, two. Maybe three. But 200 million? It was style vs. power, and power won. It was like watching Muhammad Ali, floating and stinging, try to box a steamroller in a very small ring. The results aren't pretty...
...ONLY A MATTER OF TIME before, having acquired yet more sheer computing power, Blue will see farther than Garry can feel. And then it's curtains. Then he gets shut out, 6-0. Then we don't even bother to play the brutes again. The world championship will consist of one box playing another. Men stopped foot racing against automobiles long...
...hardly news that Forbes is an apostle of supply-side economics, whose creed of tax cuts above all was discredited by the huge deficits of the 1980s. Nor is it a surprise that in a business magazine, taxes and prices would be popular topics. What's striking is the sheer intensity of Forbes' obsession. Since 1988, Forbes has written at least 65 pieces that urge tax cuts, moan about taxes here and abroad, look back with anger on tax hikes past or hail great tax cuts and cutters of yesteryear. No fewer than 45 columns, meanwhile, give lectures...
...think he's absolutely hysterical," Gilliss said. "Being there was sheer entertainment. I was laughing the whole time...