Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rating of American metropolises, they write, "is like a snapshot of a moving target." No picture is fuzzier than that of No. 1 Pittsburgh. It received no outstanding marks in eight categories--its best was seventh in education--and it accumulated no low ones. "Pittsburgh is like the Steelers' front line," observes Boyer. "Not incredibly strong in any one area, but consistently good overall...
...effective use. The obstacles are difficult even to conceive, let alone overcome. One example: tracking enemy missiles, aiming and firing at them, and then assessing almost instantaneously which ones have been hit would require a computer program so complex that it is beyond the ability of human beings to write it unaided. They would have to write instructions that special computer programs could translate into detailed Star Wars software...
...would have to keep track of tens of thousands of objects (warheads, decoys, smart rocks) moving at high speeds, analyze instantly billions of bits of information from sensors and weapons platforms, determine which weapons to fire, when to fire them and at what targets. Not only could no human write such a program unassisted, no human could check it for errors. That would have to be done by computer too. James Fletcher, who headed the Administration's original S.D.I. study, estimates the program might have to be put through 50 million debugging runs before it would be battle-ready...
...Karl Rahner and Father Heinrich Fries of the University of Munich. The attack was signed by French Dominican Daniel Ols, who teaches at the Pontifical Angelicum University in Rome. Such an editorial does not carry the weight of a Vatican pronouncement, but Ols says that he was asked to write his piece "by the hierarchy," which would mean by key aides of the Pope or even by John Paul himself...
...countries worldwide. The contributers, who detail the status of women and the extent of feminist movements in their countries, range from longtime activists of established movements--like Simone de Beauvoir on the state of French feminism, and Amanda Sebestyen, a veteran of the British movement--to women who write under aliases to avoid persecution from their governments. "La Silenciada," (the Silenced One) writes of Cuba, and we hear from an "anonymous white South African feminist" who doesn't disclose her identity because she comes out against the double persecution of Black women under apartheid...