Word: faster
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...sales (now 85% of the world market). They fear that the British-French version, the Concorde, or the Russians' TU-144, will take over the supersonic field if the U.S. withdraws, and insist that increasingly speedier planes are a technologically inevitable advance in a world committed to going faster and faster ever since the wheel...
Like HAL, the self-repairing computer is not entirely foolproof. It could not, for example, cope with a flurry of failures that knocked out parts faster than they could be replaced. But in most test situations, STAR has proved a stellar performer. On one occasion, J.P.L. scientists taught it to play blackjack, then momentarily shut down its electrical power, hoping to unsettle the computer brain. No luck. STAR immediately revived, tersely acknowledged the disruption, resumed the game exactly where it had left...
Last week the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education* proposed drastic and important changes in the traditional lockstep pattern. At one level, the commission envisions a simplified system that would sharply reduce the "credential society's" 1,600 specialized degrees to 160. Full-time students could earn degrees faster. High schools would teach college-freshman courses, for example, thus creating three-year colleges. The often needless and narrow Ph.D. degree would be limited to a few researchers. The standard advanced degree would be a new doctor of arts, earned only four years after...
...year ago during his first reporting session with her. When he arrived at the Mitchells' Watergate apartment, he was armed, as usual, only with pad and pen. "It was a mistake," Fischer recalls ruefully. "I asked her only a few questions, but her words tumbled out faster than I could write them down. At one point, watching me hastily scribble notes, she asked why didn't I learn speed writing. I wished...
Sometimes he exasperates those who would like to march with him but find his cadence too slow-and he knows it. He is, in fact, currently less ambiguous, terser, tougher than before. This encourages those close to him to urge him to move even faster, to declare himself ever more quickly and more sternly. It is then that Muskie reverts to type. "Hold on," he told an adviser who recently demanded that he speak out on an issue. "Let's never say anything that won't improve on silence...