Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that our government will develop such technology, but that it will not. The Japanese "National Superspeed Computer Project" and "Fifth Generation Computer Project" threaten to erase the supremacy of the United States in almost all areas of research. Already the Japanese boast a computer that is a thousand times faster than the speediest American model...
...first half was very rough so they stayed close," senior Co-Captain Edd Fleming said. "We didn't move very well for the first thousand meters...
...move they did, quickly enough to have half a boatlength lead by the relatively, and only relatively, calmer water of the second thousand. There, the Crimson--despite a crosswind and a somewhat frantic 37 strokes per-minute cadence--sealed the victory by holding off a Midshipman sprint with 300 meters to go to claim a five-second victory...
...what you were doing was picking 10,000 people, then you might want to use race as a surrogate to produce that variety. I think if you were picking several thousand people, as when you are picking a student body, you might want to do that. Because there what you are doing is you are picking people necessarily without a closely individualized look at what they have accomplished. But when you are picking a faculty member, you are picking in a very close way. You are looking at a lot about the person. This is a person...
...Dallas Cowboys know the answer positively. Only one senior tournament is televised, but real estate deals and deductible charities are involved. The trail of the old golfers is defined by condominiums, and, on two Pro-Am days a week, wealthy hackers or executives with expense accounts pay several thousand dollars apiece to have their putts read by Sam Snead, 71. "The funny thing is," Snead says without laughing, "my right eye is gone: no depth perception at all. I have to walk to the cup to see if a putt is uphill or down...