Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus: "For myself, a nice upholstered street grate on which to sleep. Ronald Reagan says that many people prefer them...
...strategy is to allow the other goalie to sleep, they're doing a good job of it," said one of the 42 spectators...
...overpowering urge to compute, as Levy describes it, has always seemed bizarre to outsiders. At M.I.T. and Stanford the true devotees would skip meals, drop classes and give up sleep and social lives to burrow deeper and deeper into their beloved electronic brains. Once they started on a project, they would regularly "wrap around," working day and night until, after 30 hours, they collapsed on the nearest cot or sofa. Programmers at Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Lab eventually discovered that the space between the roof and false ceiling made a comfortable sleeping hutch, and some of them lived there...
...serious men have attempted an answer. One is Jonas Salk. "When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine," he said of his early clinical tests, "you don't sleep well for two or three months." So Salk tested the vaccine on himself, his wife and his own children. This is an extraordinary response. It certainly could not have improved his sleep. It did not even solve the ethical dilemma. After all, the Salk children were put at risk, and they were no less innocent than the rest. But by involving his own kin (and himself), Salk arranged to suffer...
...keep costs down, students can sleep or take meals on the ship while in port, but most prefer to explore the ports and sleep in hostels, hotels or homes, said Mintz...