Word: wonders
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ENIAC was the technological wonder of its day. Programming the machine could take as long as two days as "coders" armed with detailed instructions fanned out among the panels, setting dials and plugging in patch cords in an arrangement that resembled an old-fashioned telephone switchboard. Data were fed into ENIAC in the form of IBM punch cards; a million cards were required for the monster's first assignment, a top-secret numerical simulation for the still untested hydrogen bomb. Every time a tube burned out, which happened twice a day at the start, a technician had to rummage among...
Many Americans wonder where their money goes. So, it turns out, does the Government. According to a study commissioned by the Federal Reserve Board and made public last week, about $154 billion in currency and coin had been put into circulation in the U.S. as of last spring. But about 60% of that cash supply, or at least $96 billion, seems to have mysteriously disappeared. Americans are probably carrying around no more than $36 billion in their pockets or purses to make day-to-day purchases. Companies, meanwhile, probably have no more than $22 billion stashed in drawers, safes...
...pursued Javier across the plaza was arrested. The government also promised a "swift and definitive" resolution of the 1984 incident. Welcome as those actions were, they brought little comfort to the grieving family and friends of Evelio Javier, or to the thousands of Filipinos who wonder how democracy can survive amid gangland violence...
...UCLA and the University of Houston filled the Astrodome for a basketball game, just about the only pretext that weary barn has anymore for calling itself "the eighth wonder of the world." That was more than ten times the Cougars' customary audience, and so what figured to be a mystery for the ages was: Where did Texas find 52,000 basketball fans? But now the question is: How did it become the basketball capital of the world...
...ever bothered to figure them out. Even though Evelyn Marie Adams had already won $3.9 million in New Jersey's Pick-6 lottery last October, it did not stop her from plunking down another buck. In fact, she raised her weekly total bet from 60 to 100 tickets. And, wonder of numbers, she hit again last week, this time for nearly $1.5 million, becoming the first two-time winner of a million-dollar-plus state lottery. Stunned officials had to consult a statistics professor before determining that Adams had just beaten odds of 17.3 trillion to 1. Both...