Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today Kurzweil's peers are corporate giants like IBM and AT&T, and the competition is tougher. Yet the boy wonder, now 38, is still out in front. In 1982 his Waltham, Mass.-based company, Kurzweil Applied Intelligence, developed the first computer capable of recognizing a substantial number of spoken words and transcribing them into printed text. Though its 1,000-word vocabulary was a dazzling breakthrough in the infant field of artificial intelligence, the machine had few practical applications because it was very slow, taking 2 1/2 minutes to print a single word. But Kurzweil is preparing to unveil...
...blocks away at the beleaguered NASA a high official declared, "Without the President's unshakable faith that we can still do the job in space we would have been destroyed by now." Off in the Mediterranean on board ships and carriers of the Sixth Fleet, the words spoken by Reagan during last month's Gulf of Sidra incident were like a surge of adrenaline. Talking of the fleet's commander, Vice Admiral Frank Kelso, the President said, "The man knows what he's doing. Let's let him do the job." The admiral and his men did just that...
...that was in favor of it, only to be heckled, insulted and chased out of the hall, squirted with fake blood? The Constitution guarantees freedom of speech to ensure that the voice of minorities can be heard. In this case, the Contras are the minority. The protesters could have spoken during the question and answer period. They could have had talks of their own. They believe in their cause. They are fighting for freedom in Nicaragua--freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from fear and freedom from poverty--and that is good. What they need...
...Spoken like a true...
Daniel Ortega is often called shy, soft-spoken, retiring: "the reluctant ruler." Not Murillo. The First Lady maintains the kind of profile that goes with $300 glasses. A darling of the radical chic, the articulate, outspoken Murillo counts Bianca Jagger (also a Nicaraguan) and Harry Belafonte among her friends. In New York City for January's large international writers' congress, Murillo was escorted by Little Steven Van Zandt, a rock songwriter who produced the antiapartheid anthem Sun City. She had planned to attend an antidrug seminar in Atlanta last week at which Nancy Reagan was hostess, but did not obtain...