Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Center Director Claire Olsen told the council $300-350,000 in federal funds would go to buy the site from the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, the current owner of the propery...
...press can tell you there are three ways to get into the public eye: be lucky, be important, or be a relative. Massachusetts has always struggled to gain peripheral attention for its primaries, while sister New Hampshire's contest stole the show. The Bay State is playing second fiddle again this year, benefitting only through association--the primary here is March 4, one week after the Granite State's. If you go by delegate counts, Massachusetts is more than five times more influential in awarding the presidential nomination than its northern neighbor. But who really cares about New Hampshire...
...years with a dogged Democratic reputation and not much visibility. The '72 primary gave Massachusetts a hefty ego boost--its majority vote for Sen. George McGovern, coming on the same day as his victory in Pennsylvania, clinched his nomination and extinguished Edmund Muskie's waning hopes. Of course, the Bay State went on to greater glory and better bumper-sticker copy ("Don't Blame Me, I'm From Massachusetts") as the only state to vote for McGovern over former President Richard M. Nixon in the general election that year...
...young men had expected long ago to have memories of the Viet Nam War behind them and concentrate on their growing families and civilian careers. But when 300 Long Island, N.Y., veterans, wives and children met at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Bay Shore, they exchanged tales of a terror that has deformed their lives. Jim Albrigtsen, 30, is in almost constant pain from pus-filled lumps under his skin. Mike Ryan, 34, has recovered from a similar affliction, but his eight-year-old daughter Kerry has 18 birth defects, including missing bones in her right...
...ponds in the U.S. Under an agreement with Israel, a group led by Southern California Edison is planning a five-megawatt demonstration facility at the Salton Sea, in Southern California's Imperial Valley. Under Government funding, scientists will investigate other potential U.S. solar pond sites, including San Francisco Bay and Utah's Great Salt Lake. Though their estimate may be somewhat optimistic, solar pond boosters figure that the new technology could eventually meet as much as 12% of U.S. energy needs and even more in Third World countries...