Word: sys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bearded man enters the computer room from the back door, his coat on and books in hand. He walks to the blackboard and begins to write. Hearing the scraping chalk, every head turns to see him writing: "sys problems tonite call...
...case, no hearings are needed to document the banking sys tem's difficulties. That is being done by the earnings reports of the banks themselves. These make clear that the banks are suffering a financial hangover from the recession, which left many borrowers unable to repay their debts, and also from the banks' own past vigorous push to make loans, some of which were questionable in the first place...
Until last year, the downtown district and the tax base of Lima, Ohio (pop. 55,000), were disappearing at approximately the same rate. The bus sys tem had broken down, the turreted old railway station was closed, and the streets were full of potholes...
...Galley trial as in the Water gate trials, publicity alone does not seem compelling reason to abort the jury sys tem. By reductio ad absurdum, that would establish a principle that fame, not the truth, shall make you free. All a defendant's constitutional guarantees remain, but the basis of the jury system is still a faith that in the end, jurors are rationally capable of rendering judgment, as if they were kicking Dr. Johnson's rock. ∙Lance Morrow
...humans, Pioneer passed just 81,000 miles above the multicolored Jovian cloud tops, took color pictures, gathered oth er data and then was hurled by the enormous gravitational pull of the sun's larg est planet onto a course that will eventually carry it out of the solar sys tem, toward the stars - the first object from earth ever to embark on such a cosmic odyssey...