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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!uvaarpa!darwin.sura.net!paladin.american.edu!auvm!CS.UCHICAGO.EDU!SAMANT
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  6. Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:34:57 CST
  7. Sender:       English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
  8. From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
  9. Subject: Re: Cloudy skies over Portland
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  12. >>Bear in mind that I am one of those who would attend even if the 5th
  13. >>Circle of Hell were the locus, ...
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  15. >Is "locus" going the way of "parameter"?
  16.  
  17. I goofed. Locus probably also means "location", as in locus on a chromosome.
  18. The geometric meaning is not the only one.
  19.  
  20. tushar
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