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Word: subjected (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brave. Well, strike the almost. Manny is a robot, though with a body temperature of 98.6 0 F and a chest that heaves with each "breath," he is astonishingly lifelike. Come October, he will wade into clouds of nerve gas, which his owner, the U.S. Army, would never dare subject a real soldier to. Manny's mission, at the Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, will be to test protective clothing -- for example, to determine whether walking, bending or sweating might cause the clothing to leak and let gas through. Built for $2.35 million by Battelle's Pacific Northwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robots: Meet Manny, One Tough G.I. | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

...have been compared with both Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, both in scope of your subject matter and in your treatment of the psychology and ideas of your characters. What is your relationship to each of these two authors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Prophet In Exile ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

Considering the complexity of the task, the progress in machine translation has been startling. Essentially, the translating machine analyzes the syntax of an English sentence, determining its grammatical structure and identifying, for example, the subject, verb, objects and modifiers. Then the words are translated by an English-Japanese dictionary. Next, another part of the computer program analyzes the resulting awkward jumble of words and meanings, and generates an intelligible sentence based on the rules of Japanese syntax and the machine's understanding of what the original English sentence meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Trying To Decipher Babel | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

...terms of the contract are subject to Hinz not being released by the squad before the NFL's final cut in the end of August, when teams have to reduce their rosters to 47 players. There are currently 71 players in the Patriots camp, as well as eight unsigned veterans and six unsigned rookies...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Hinz Signs Contract With Pats | 7/21/1989 | See Source »

...said politicians are power hungry? American politicians are greeting the happy news that they are free once again to exercise their democratic prerogatives on the subject of abortion with a reserve bordering on clinical depression. "It's terrible to have this issue back again," New York Assembly Speaker Mel Miller told the New York Times. Others gloomily predict "a mess" and "havoc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The New Politics of Abortion | 7/17/1989 | See Source »

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