Word: von
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...British Consulate requested the University select 50 students who share one of Prince Charles' interests--polo playing, architecture, music, student government or third world issues--to attend a special tea with the Prince on September 4, said Melissa von Stade, an official in the University Development Office who is overseeing the student invitations...
...told, the decades immediately after World War II were something of a golden age for socialism. As countries extended their sway over business, Economists Joseph Schumpeter and Friedrich von Hayek darkly warned of an irreversible global turning away from capitalism. Schumpeter argued, "Socialism of a very sober type would almost automatically come into being." Hayek predicted that the rejection of free enterprise would create dictatorships everywhere...
...earnest gas-station attendant." Liberal writers have dismissed him as ideologue, cretin and airhead, or worse. They have thought of Chauncey Gardiner, the transcendentally brainless seer in Jerzy Kosinski's novel Being There. Gardiner, in the eloquence of his idiocy, becomes a national oracle. "How humiliating," the columnist Nicholas von Hoffman wrote of Reagan in 1982, "to think of this unlettered, self-assured bumpkin being our President...
...have grown more capacious, this design has become increasingly inefficient. While it is easy to expand memory, it is hard to increase the capacity of the processor. As a result, giant machines are forced to draw their data through a single narrow passageway known by computer scientists as the Von Neumann bottleneck...
...suit the natural structure of the data. To simulate a computer component made up of 20,000 transistorized switches, for example, the machine would assign one processor to each switch. Then, rather than updating the state of those 20,000 switches one at a time, as in a traditional Von Neumann-type computer, the Connection Machine's software simply tells the 20,000 processors to update themselves all at once...