Word: tic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Board opens. At the bell, the Dow is already off 67 points. In the next 30 minutes, 50 million shares are sold. At DLJ two blocks away, glowing green figures on computer consoles trace the market's fall. "We're going underwater!" shouts Trader John Sesko as he pops Tic Tac candies into his dry mouth. "55,000 Pepsis to sell!" barks one trader. "60,000 GM to sell!" yells another. The cries do not stop. "Boston wants to sell 30,000 J.P. Morgan!" Long before lunchtime, a trader shouts, "Hamburger to go! Hamburger to go in six figures...
Amid the turmoil surrounding his nomination, Bork has continued his visits with key Senators, tirelessly explaining his stands on legal issues, struggling to convince lawmakers that he is the right man for the Supreme Court. Though one Reagan aide described Bork as "nervous as a tic," he insists that the judge has never talked about withdrawing his nomination. "He was not asked to ((withdraw)) and didn't raise it" during a 20-minute pep talk with the President at the White House last week, said the aide. An official who spent a good deal of time with Bork last week...
Some analysts see Falwell's PTL maneuver as a masterstroke to forge a new alliance between two Protestant forces that have had little to do with each other -- Fundamentalism and the Pentecostal-charisma tic movement. But during an appearance in Cocoa Beach, Fla., last week, Falwell said he had another reason for acting: "If Heritage Village were to go down the tubes, it would affect every Christian person in America...
EXPERT SYSTEMS. By playing a computer game of tic-tac-toe, visitors can get a rough idea of the workings of an expert system -- that is, a computer program that emulates the reasoning and procedures of an expert in a specialized field. The tic-tac-toe program relies on the judgment of seven internal "experts" in playing the game. For instance, WIN looks only for winning moves. DEFEND acts to block wins by its opponent, and DECIDE weighs the recommendations of the other six and dictates the moves. On the computer screen each of the experts has its own tic...
...Boston exhibition, robots display their growing intelligence by talking, drawing, feeling, seeing and playing a game of tic...