Word: smarter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Voice Chess Challenger is a gabby and much smarter version of the computer chess player turned out by Fidelity Electronics nearly three years ago. Back then it seemed remarkable that a tiny computer could play chess at all, even though its play was less than brilliant. Now the chess ability of the reprogrammed chip is high enough to make any parlor wood-pusher loosen his collar and roll up his sleeves, and it is the machine's distinctly machine-like speech that is the dazzling gimmick. Turn the doodad on, and it says, dropping each word like a cinder...
...more realistic worry is that conservative oil producers will see the seizure of Iran's funds as proof of the riskiness of putting assets in any money, in any bank. That would add yet more weight to the growing OPEC feeling that it is smarter to cut production and leave the oil in the ground where it is safe than to turn it into dollars or other paper assets that can be seized. Confidence in the international monetary system was shaky enough before last week's action. Since 1973, the nearly tenfold increase in oil prices has sent...
...years. Students were forever proposing theories in a frenetic attempt to account for the many contradictions in physics; Glashow's was regarded as just another prospect. "I was very proud of the paper," its author fondly recalls, "but I had no idea of its import. If we'd been smarter, we'd have realized as early as 1964 how important it was. But we were stupid. I had to import two foreigners to figure...
...paper, Brown was a stronger team; but we played a smarter game," Scalise said. "Conditioning was a major factor because even though they were pressuring us, we were able to beat them to the ball...
...have those baubles in our candy store. And GM is the price leader; it's not going to raise its prices $ 1,000 on little cars just so we can break even. We're the underdog, but that means we've just got to do it smarter...