Word: backup
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...envisioned, the mission to collect samples would require separate U.S. and Soviet launches. With their heavy-lift launcher Energia, which can boost payloads at least three times as great as those on the U.S. shuttle, the Soviets would provide an extra capability to ensure sufficient backup fuel supplies. They believe they can deploy a space shield or parachute to slow their spacecraft enough to enable it to enter orbit around Mars without the use of retrorockets that draw on precious fuel supplies. Soviet scientists concede that this "aerobreaking" technique is still experimental...
...account of "Lord Investments" in Vienna's Creditanstalt bank. He first heard a taped message: "This is First Chicago transfer operations. Your transaction is being recorded." Unfazed, the caller placed the order with one of Taylor's unwitting co-workers. Taylor pretended to phone another Merrill Lynch official for backup confirmation. He really called the Chicago home of Bailey, who gave an authentic-sounding "approval" as the tape rolled. The $24 million was promptly wired to New York's Citibank for later transfer to Vienna...
...lawyers to intercept his mail and bodyguards to screen his movements, the fugitive managed to elude the U.S. Capitol police for ten days. Finally, a stakeout caught him at a stoplight near his home in Great Falls, Va. Running in a half crouch, Sergeant Tom Moore sprinted past a backup car of security men, reached through the auto's open window and slapped his quarry on the chest with a congressional subpoena. "O.K., you got me," the captive conceded...
...also "allows a singer to use a lot of different performing qualities," says Maureen N. McLane '89, a member of the co-ed Opportunes and director of an informal singing troupe known as the Currier House Singing Rats. "It takes a lot of different talents. There are opportunities for backup singing, soloing, dramatics and acting, and choreographed moves. It's an entirely different dynamic...
...commercial software product known to have been a virus carrier. The bug could just as easily have instructed its host computers to erase their storage disks. Several companies are now marketing "vaccine" programs that offer some protection against uninvited invaders, but none are foolproof. Experts advise users to make backup copies of their important disks and to regard each new piece of software as a potential carrier until it has been thoroughly tested...