Word: use
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DESPITE Spence's insistence that the hotel plan is the most efficient use of the land (revenue from the hotel will presumably pay for converting the site into office space some time early in the next century), one has to wonder why Spence so willfully opposed the wishes of the faculty he heads...
...legitimate interest in the use of the property. After all, Harvard faces incipient crises in shortages of both faculty office space and storage space for library books. To the observer untrained in the art of bureaucratic thinking, these needs seem more pressing than the shortage of moderately priced hotel rooms in the area. Spence insists that the faculty's needs will be met somehow, but he made no definite provisions for them before proceeding with the hotel plan...
...damages. In a campaign of harassment (financed almost entirely from cleanup funds provided by Exxon), state officials manage to find fault at every turn. Says Steve Provant, a state cleanup coordinator: "I don't think any of the beaches are clean." Recently the state withheld approval for Exxon to use a floating incinerator it had brought to Alaska at a cost of $5 million after initially telling the company that burning was the preferred method of waste disposal...
...inferences per sec. (FLIPS). And NASA is experimenting with fuzzy controllers that could help astronauts pilot the shuttle in earth orbit. The results so far, say NASA officials, are encouraging, and there is growing interest at such aerospace firms as Rockwell and Boeing. "The only barrier remaining" to wider use of fuzzy logic, says Kosko, "is the philosophical resistance of the West...
...that will not fade from the minds of horrified television viewers around the world is the recurrent scene of helmeted policemen lashing black protesters with menacing whips. Admitting that the image problem was a primary concern, the South African government announced last week that police would no longer use the 3-ft.-long hard rubber whips, known as sjamboks...