Word: thumb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...throw was high, and I had to leap for the ball. Thinking I could still tag Pat, I slammed my mitt down on the plate. I jammed my thumb instead...
...championship eights, only hardcore fans remained--meaning those who actually knew something about the sport and the athletes. One, a would-be crewbie, side-lined by a crushed thumb in a weight-room accident, kept screaming, "Go Columbia...
...NOTEBOOK: Junior forward Anne van Dykum sat out with a broken right thumb...Loren Ambinder, van Dykum's substitute, played against her twin sister Leslie...Harvard's next game is scheduled for Saturday at Soldier's Field at 11 a.m. against Dartmouth, the defending Ivy League champion...
However, all was not rosy for Harvard. The Crimson lost the services of junior forward Anne van Dykum,whose right thumb was broken when she was hit withthe ball while covering the sideline...
Fuzzy logic began to find applications in industry in the early '70s, when it was teamed with another form of advanced computer science called the expert system. A product of research into artificial intelligence, expert systems solve complex problems somewhat like human experts do -- by applying rules of thumb. (Example: when the oven gets very hot, turn the gas down a bit.) In 1980 F.L. Smidth & Co. of Copenhagen began marketing the first commercial fuzzy expert system: a computer program that controlled the fuel-intake rate and gas flow of a rotating kiln used to make cement...