Word: washing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...allow users to put questions to a computer in everyday language rather than in convoluted codes or obscure commands. Instead of typing commas, colons, numbers and letters, an operator can enter requests as straightforward as "Give me the top five salesmen in Pennsylvania." Two innovative firms, Microrim, from Bellevue, Wash., and Artificial Intelligence, from Waltham, Mass., demonstrated programs that allow people to search for information in large mainframe computer data banks by posing questions in ordinary English. A new firm called Menlo, based in the Silicon Valley, unveiled In-Search, which allows callers to tap into Lockheed's huge...
...commotion welcoming all the talented newcomers, the ski world seemed almost to forget about the 26-year-old twins from Yakima, Wash., whose careers had proved that U.S. men skiers could beat the world. Phil had won the World Cup three years in a row, and he had taken a silver in slalom at Lake Placid. Steve had won the G.S. world championship in 1982. But in the Sarajevo G.S., these anchors of the U.S. team could do no better than eighth and 17th. They were quitting after this season, they said, and they seemed tired of skiing. Poor...
...theory has yet to be put into practice. Although the U.S. has three sites-Hanford, Wash., Beatty, Nev., and Barnwell, S.C. -for the disposal of such low-level wastes as contaminated clothing and the radioactive materials used by hospitals, it does not have a permanent repository capable of handling spent fuel rods. Attempts to create such a facility at Hanford were halted when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the U.S. Geological Survey, the State of Washington and the Yakima Indians all joined together to object because of uncertainties about underground water movement...
...nearly 1 million gal. of radioactive water that had spilled into the plant's reactor and other buildings. The water was passed through filters to remove radioactive material, which was then loaded into stainless-steel casks and trucked away for testing at an Energy Department facility near Richland, Wash. In August, the company plans to lift the cover off the Unit 2 reactor and remove the destroyed core and the remaining fuel rods. Once it has done that, it will be able to complete the process of decontaminating the reactor building and either decommissioning the reactor or repairing...
Sitting inches from the prop wash of his UH-1H ("Huey") helicopter, Salvadoran Army Colonel Julio César Yánez López stared with satisfaction at the thin plumes of smoke coiling across the scrubby landscape below. "We're fighting terrorists, not guerrillas with a noble cause," he announced as the chopper settled to earth alongside a cornfield crackling with flames. "We're going to integrate Usulután back into the economic life of this country...