Word: standardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Japanese comparison is itself tortured because of our vast cultural and economic differences. Still, Dow 10,000 represents a similar shared trust in the system--a trust that drove Japan to giddy heights and a crushing fall. In the Standard & Poor's 500, Morgan Stanley reports that just 15 stocks (3% of the total) accounted for 52% of the index's gain last year. "The market" may be going up, but it's almost entirely on the backs of a favored few: GE, IBM, Wal-Mart, Merck--all Dow components--along with tech wonders Microsoft, Dell (which...
...know a discipline has arrived when its detractors start depicting themselves as radicals assaulting the intellectual status quo. This fall John Horgan (The End of Science) will come out with a book that, according to its publisher's catalog, "boldly contradicts all standard views" of psychology, "including those of Steven Pinker and E.O. Wilson." Ah, vindication at last...
...symbols in which statements in formal systems were written generally included, for the sake of clarity, standard numerals, plus signs, parentheses and so forth, but they were not a necessary feature; statements could equally well be built out of icons representing plums, bananas, apples and oranges, or any utterly arbitrary set of chicken scratches, as long as a given chicken scratch always turned up in the proper places and only in such proper places. Mathematical statements in such systems were, it then became apparent, merely precisely structured patterns made up of arbitrary symbols...
Godel, in thinking very carefully about this rather surreal scenario, soon realized that the property of being M.P. was not all that different from such familiar notions as "prime number," "odd number" and so forth. Thus earthbound number theorists could, with their standard tools, tackle such questions as, "Which numbers are M.P. numbers, and which are not?" for example, or "Are there infinitely many non-M.P. numbers?" Advanced math textbooks--on Earth, and in principle on Mars as well--might have whole chapters about M.P. numbers...
...Jacko have sat down there to enjoy the duck. To eat anything that won't require taking out a second and third mortgage, try trekking over the bridge to West Palm Beach, where affordable fare is the norm. Eateries on Clematis Street, the heart of downtown, embellish standard TGI Friday's fare with sundried tomatoes, raspberries or both...