Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many of the candidates endorsed by CLAGA stressed the importance of integrating gay needs into the community in an unthreatening way, by relating gay issues to basic human rights, and not making excessive demands on the community...
...many as 99 atoms. Mathematician Bernard Kolman created a program that will solve complex matrix algebra problems and explain each step along the way. Electrical Engineer Banu Onaral developed a series of programs that generate wave forms on the screen and manipulate them according to the basic rules of signal processing. "These are very theoretical subjects that require some brain gymnastics to be understood," says Onaral. "The computer can help students visualize these abstract concepts...
...Such basic issues are not likely to be resolved as long as the system pits rival services against each other in an indiscriminate scramble for more or newer weapons. Shaking up the Pentagon, Washington's most entrenched bureaucracy, will not be easy. The rumblings of dissatisfaction from longtime Pentagon loyalists like Goldwater will fuel the debate. But it will take a commitment from the Administration--as well as Congress --to bring real reform to the military establishment...
...wait until I'm 21 before they'll let me practice." The only child of Thai immigrants, he was reading at age two (before he could talk), at four scored 159 on an IQ test (140 is generally considered genius level), also at four taught his chemical engineer father BASIC computer language (are you keeping up with all this?) and finished high school at eight. His mother, who started reading to him during the pregnancy, devotes herself full time to his education, driving him to university and then walking him across the street. David reports he gets along fine with...
...rational. Compared with the old antiblack, anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish demagogues of the South, like "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman of South Carolina, who boasted to the Senate, "We shot the Negroes" and "we are not ashamed of it," Farrakhan is harmless, at least for the present. He uses the basic demagogue's tools of swinging illogically from one emotional touchstone to another, of performing little body shivers that tickle his listeners, of sounding threatening one moment, sweet-talking the next and--essential device--of saying "love" as frequently as possible. But he lacks the timing and the verbal gifts...