Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This communications Stone Age disconnected more than Hinsdale. More than half a million other suburban residents could not make long-distance calls, or even ring up nearby Chicago. O'Hare Airport endured two days of flight delays when controllers lost contact with the air-traffic control center in Aurora, Ill. From posh Oak Brook, where companies like McDonald's have their headquarters, to the high-tech corridor along the East-West Tollway, circuits were jammed for days...
...Hinsdale telephone system could go down so easily, some wondered just how vulnerable other crucial communications hubs around the country might be. Without Ma Bell, Hinsdale discovered, a community can quickly become an orphan of the electronic age...
...string of questions for those who would legalize drugs. Among them: Which drugs should be permitted, just marijuana or the more damaging heroin, cocaine and angel dust? How would they be sold, by prescription through hospitals and clinics or in "drugstores," tobacco shops, even supermarkets? Would there be an age limit, and how would it be enforced? Would users be permitted to buy as much as they wanted, even if their demands became insatiable as their addictions deepened? Or would there be some kind of so-many-grams-per- customer limit? If so, again, how would it be enforced...
Earlier this year, the President vetoed the Civil Rights Restoration Act, which bars institutions which receive federal assistance from discriminating on the basis of sex, race, age, or physical handicap. Fortunately, on March 22, Congress soundly overturned the Reagan veto...
February 1, 1988: The Harvard hockey team follows an age-old formula: Crimson plus Beanpot equals defeat. Boston University is the recipient of another Harvard disaster. The Terriers go to the 'Pot final after knocking out the Crimson...