Word: units
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lindsey said he was especially interested in what students would have to say about their section leaders and the unit test program...
...Dingman says he is skeptical of a fraternity that would be a residential unit--a dimension none of the fraternities say they are contemplating. Saying that the house system is successful, Dingman adds that it is "hard to be enthusiastic about [the prospect of] residential fraternities coming in." He says he goes to many meetings at other colleges, and "often times what I hear is 'you're so lucky you don't have fraternities...
...Foster St. house has been listed with theRent Control Board at $1000 per month sinceOctober, when Lord obeyed a city demand toregister the unit with the board...
...timing device and incendiary device were used to ignite the fire, which occurred about 3:30 a.m. on December 26, said Kenneth Clark of the Cambridge Fire Investigation Unit. The device consisted of "a kitchen timer wired to barbecue lighter fluid," said Cambridge Deputy Fire Chief John Gelinas...
Unlike the basic unit of conventional computer programming -- the algorithm, which details a precise series of steps that will yield a precise result -- those rules (referred to in computerese as heuristics) state a relationship that is likely, but not guaranteed, to yield an outcome. Heuristics allow computers to deal with situations that cannot be reduced to mathematical formulas and may involve many exceptions. It is the kind of reasoning that governs countless everyday decisions, ranging from the mundane, such as choosing the appropriate clothes for a job interview, to the apocalyptic, such as deciding whether a Soviet missile launch...