Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...under his son's stewardship that the paper developed a liberal editorial voice and worked its way onto the short list of the country's best newspapers. Though Mary wrote some of the editorials, she did not always practice enlightened attitudes at home; infuriated after discovering that a black youngster had used the family swimming pool, she had the water drained. Intent on imbuing her children with proper manners and noblesse oblige, she ended up attempting to run their lives. Her husband, meanwhile, remained aloof from the children. As one son put it, "My father loves humanity in general...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology, another computer is struggling to learn what any three-year-old child already knows: the difference between a cup and a saucer. What the youngster sees at a glance, the computer must be taught, painstakingly, one step at a time. First it must comprehend the concept of an object, a physical thing distinguished from the space around it by edges and surfaces. Then it must grasp the essential attributes of cupness: the handle, the leakproof central cavity, the stable base. Finally, it must deal with the exceptions, like the foam-plastic cup whose heat-insulating properties...
...youngster under Thompson's tutelage, Rainey ran for the Atoms Track Club in Brooklyn, N.Y., for four years. She gave up the sport when she turned...
...active youngster, White had an interest in tennis until she saw a professional hockey game...
...extra police patrolling the beat in their districts. The L.A.P.D. has refused to make public how its forces are allotted. Councilwoman Gloria Molina claims that the department assigns police equally, whether the crime is the theft of a BMW in West Los Angeles or the killing of a black youngster in Watts. She has attached an amendment to the city budget to force Police Chief Daryl Gates to reveal his formula for deploying his forces...