Word: backups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cleary felt so sure of victory going into last night's game that he started backup goaltender Michael Francis. Francis, a freshman who last saw action in a 6-3 loss to the University of Minnesota Duluth in late December, responded to the call of duty with 17 saves. Only Tim McWain's blast from 40-ft. with seven minutes left in the final period spoiled his shutout...
Crimson freshman goalie Gillian D'Souza began the second period, giving starter Jennifer White a rest before today's game. RIT took advantage of the young netminder and quickly gave the backup some of what Dooley termed "good" experience...
High Tide's Lilli (seething enigmatically under the tight rein of Judy Davis' performance) is quite like Judith Hearne. Rootlessly she ranges the Australian provinces as another sort of fringe musician, backup singer for an Elvis imitator. She too drinks, and though she will indulge in desultory sex, it is not a high priority with her. Most important, she too is presented with a last chance to turn her life around -- to reveal her identity and reclaim her long-abandoned daughter Ally (the soberly lovely Claudia Karvan...
Robins claims she discovered a self-defeating Unisys procedure: instead of halting other operations while both the main and backup software were tested, the contractor permitted NASA to make additional changes in payload and other shuttle flight plans as the testing proceeded. While this saved a three-week hold for each test, she insists that it rendered the results meaningless, since the software could not be adjusted and tested simultaneously...
...shuttle's mission and design. In March 1986, two months after the Challenger tragedy, she was approached for help by software experts at Rockwell International, the shuttle's prime contractor. They asked her to find out whether Unisys had an adequate system for testing the shuttle's backup software, which would be vital if the basic computer programming failed...