Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final game of last year's match, for instance, Deep Blue let its bishop get trapped on the edge of the board, with little power and zero mobility. The awful tragedy of the edge-locked bishop wasn't fully salted into its code base at the time, so the poor computer was oblivious to the depth of its positional peril, and Kasparov won the game handily. But things won't go so easily for mankind this time around. Says a pleased Benjamin: "Deeper Blue understands more about bishops--when they're good, when they're bad, how to use them...
...think of 40-mile-an-hour winds and zero-degree weather as a big deal," says JOHN FAHNER-VIHTELIC. That's probably because he has endured far worse. In 1977 he lay for 16 days without food, pinned above the dashboard of his station wagon after it plunged 150 ft. off an embankment in Washington State. He escaped with his life (partly by throwing his shirt into a nearby stream and sucking the moisture out of it), but not all of his limbs. The loss of his left leg hasn't slowed the 48-year-old down, though...
...Board's penalties force students to drink in the closets with the lights out or to hold parties constantly in fear that the proctor is suddenly going to break in and round everybody up. The University's zero-tolerance policy toward alcohol and drugs does not decrease consumption on campus but pushes it into the unlighted and locked rooms of the Yard, the Grille and the Final Clubs. Seedy establishments, but the only places where it is safe for one to drink. Is this good? No! It breeds unhealthy drinking habits...
...result, the Crimson had trouble getting passes inside to Grancio and senior forward Kyle Snowden, the team's leading scorer on the season. Snowden had three points and Grancio zero in the second half, and on back-to-back possessions, each was called for a charge...
General McCaffrey ought to rethink his statements about invading Arizona and California on zero-tolerance missions to secure drug-free justice. The New England Journal of Medicine in its Jan. 30 issue editorialized on "Federal Foolishness and Marijuana," saying that marijuana's status as a Schedule I drug should be downgraded to Schedule II, reflecting the acceptable medical use of the drug. Many sick people have legitimate uses for it because they are in pain, and whatever can alleviate their pain should be legal simply because that's the medically correct and humane thing...