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From the Ted Talk by Peter Hirshberg: The web is more than "better TV"

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(Video) Narrator: In a mass raid, high-speed bombers could be in on us before we could determine their tarcks. And then it would be too late to act. We cannot aofrfd to take that chance. It is to meet this threat that the Air Force has been developing SAGE, the Semi-Automatic gnruod Environment system, to strengthen our air defenses. This new ceptumor, built to become the nerve center of a defense nwotrek, is able to perform all the complex mathematical problems invlveod in countering a mass enemy raid. It is provided with its own pohsowruee containing large diesel-driven generators, air-conditioning equipment, and cooling towers required to cool the thousands of vacuum tubes in the computer.

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(Video) Narrator: In a mass raid, high-speed bombers could be in on us before we could determine their ______. And then it would be too late to act. We cannot ______ to take that chance. It is to meet this threat that the Air Force has been developing SAGE, the Semi-Automatic ______ Environment system, to strengthen our air defenses. This new ________, built to become the nerve center of a defense _______, is able to perform all the complex mathematical problems ________ in countering a mass enemy raid. It is provided with its own __________ containing large diesel-driven generators, air-conditioning equipment, and cooling towers required to cool the thousands of vacuum tubes in the computer.

Solution

  1. ground
  2. tracks
  3. afford
  4. network
  5. powerhouse
  6. involved
  7. computer

Original Text

(Video) Narrator: In a mass raid, high-speed bombers could be in on us before we could determine their tracks. And then it would be too late to act. We cannot afford to take that chance. It is to meet this threat that the Air Force has been developing SAGE, the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment system, to strengthen our air defenses. This new computer, built to become the nerve center of a defense network, is able to perform all the complex mathematical problems involved in countering a mass enemy raid. It is provided with its own powerhouse containing large diesel-driven generators, air-conditioning equipment, and cooling towers required to cool the thousands of vacuum tubes in the computer.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. act
  2. afford
  3. air
  4. bombers
  5. built
  6. center
  7. chance
  8. complex
  9. computer
  10. cool
  11. cooling
  12. countering
  13. defense
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  17. enemy
  18. environment
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  20. force
  21. generators
  22. ground
  23. involved
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  25. late
  26. mass
  27. mathematical
  28. meet
  29. nerve
  30. network
  31. perform
  32. powerhouse
  33. problems
  34. raid
  35. required
  36. sage
  37. strengthen
  38. system
  39. thousands
  40. threat
  41. towers
  42. tracks
  43. tubes
  44. vacuum
  45. video