Word: steams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Comfort has not been the only thing destroyed by this summer's steam-bath weather. Some lives have been snuffed out too. Cook County Chief Medical Examiner Robert Stein counts 39 heat-related deaths so far in Chicago and its environs. Missouri has registered 30 deaths and 572 cases of heat-related illness. (The term encompasses both heatstroke and other conditions, like heart trouble, that are aggravated by the hot weather.) Many of the victims are old, poor or both. But not all: two men in their 20s died competing in New York City footraces...
...Diego for the second international conference on neural networks. For five days, they studied the recent advances in this form of artificial intelligence and pondered its bright future. Before long, Tom Schwartz, an industry consultant in Mountain View, Calif., told the crowd, "these machines will be recognized as the steam engines of the 21st century...
...campaign is moving full steam ahead with plenty of momentum from the convention," he said...
...going on here? By all accounts, the 5 1/2-year-old economic expansion should be fizzling out. Already ancient by historical standards, the upswing appeared to have suffered a devastating blow when the stock market crashed last October. But, defying expectations, the economy is still running and even blowing off enough steam to inspire fears that it may actually be overheating. Forget about a recession, many economists counsel, and start worrying about inflation. Once a faint and far-off danger, rising prices may now pose the gravest threat to economic stability...
...Harvard lacrosse team's comeback train was running at full steam Wednesday in the opening game of the NCAA Tournament...