Word: ten-year-old
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Once a land of repressive dictatorship, Spain is taking its ten-year-old democracy in stride. The old political extremes have largely evaporated, and the majority has steadily moved toward the center. The ruling Socialists have also shifted, abandoning their calls for radical social change. In his campaign, Gonzalez, 44, calmly asked for four more years to consolidate his party's gains...
...truly compulsive debtors, there is Debtors Anonymous, a ten-year-old national group. Modeled after Alcoholics Anonymous, it encourages debtors to admit that they have been unable to exercise any control over their impulse to spend money. One first piece of advice offered by both credit counselors and D.A.: cut up all credit cards and pay only cash. Reformed Debtor Barbara Aissen, a 49-year-old nurse at Miami Children's Hospital, recalls her own reaction upon hearing this suggestion. Says she: "I didn't have to think about it twice. I said, 'Where's the scissors? I'll slice...
Computers have been playing passable chess since 1966, when M.I.T. Student Richard Greenblatt wrote a program called MacHack that trounced Hubert Dreyfus, a Berkeley philosopher who had insisted that no computer would ever beat even a ten-year-old. Today chess machines defeat most casual players, and the best programs can hold their own against all but the top grand masters...
...into more computers, which ultimately spewed it out to cringing auditors and suffocating finance ministers around the globe. Then what? Well, said Marsha, in a little while she would take the bus to her home in Hyattsville, Md., and if need be, she would help her ten-year-old son with his arithmetic...
...wind and water gathered force, however, Yakub Ali knew that something ominous was on the way. Hurrying back to his homestead, he awoke his wife, his ten-year-old son and his younger brother and urged them to come along to Urirchar's only concrete building, a two-story Forestry Department complex a little more than half a mile away. By then the tide had begun to rise. Yakub and his family started running; all around them people were racing for safety...