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(Message started by: Brad on Nov 9^th, 2005, 1:17pm)

Title: can somebody help me solve this?
Post by Brad on Nov 9^th, 2005, 1:17pm

_____ is the operating mechanism of the Dark Forces (one word)

and

What is a little-known term for the best method for finding a small item in a large group of items - if the items in the group are ordered? (Three words, the middle word is 'and')

any help would be awsome

Title: Re: can somebody help me solve this?
Post by towr on Nov 9^th, 2005, 1:29pm

For the first you could go with stupidity, ignorance or more general vice or alternatively power, money, politics, or another direction the USA, globalization, terrorism. I don't think there's just one answer, unless the dark forces are specified.

For the second question, it might be "divide and conquer". Except that's doesn't say much about the actual solution, it can be a terrible solution and still be "divide and conquer".
Binary search/dictionary search would be better. That's a specific form of "divide and conquer".