Word: weren
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...blank check. I told the Chinese that Americans are unpredictable: even if we said we wouldn't defend Taiwan, the U.S. Congress and the American public might change their minds. The moral of the story is, be very cautious. As you saw in 1950--when we said we weren't going to do anything in Korea--we were at war within the year...
...years AI researchers have tossed around the question of whether computers might be sentient. But since they often did so in casual late-night conversations, and sometimes in an altered state of consciousness, their speculations weren't hailed as major contributions to Western thought. However, as computers keep evolving, more philosophers are taking the issue of computer consciousness seriously. And some of them--such as Chalmers, a professor of philosophy at the University of California at Santa Cruz--are using it to argue that consciousness is a deeper puzzle than many philosophers have realized...
...this point, surely even the Clintons realized that Whitewater was proving to be a disastrous investment. They had to borrow another $20,000 from Citizens Bank (a note the Clintons and the McDougals signed personally) at 14.5% just to cover interest payments on the original Citizens loan. Existing revenues weren't nearly sufficient to cover interest expenses, which kept rising as notes were renewed at higher rates and new notes taken on. So far, the partners had kept their fingers in the dike by continuing to borrow from friendly bankers or the bank controlled by McDougal. But this was little...
...Carried?" my wife said. "I thought you weren't allowed to carry the ball in soccer...
...rules weren't posted, but Reed knew what they were. Pat Buchanan was permitted to call Bob Dole "Beltway Bob," for instance, but Dole was not allowed to call Buchanan an extremist. Bob Dornan was allowed to say anything he wanted to say, for the same reason your wacky Uncle Harry was allowed to say anything he wanted...