Word: backups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pictorial intelligence that distinguishes the best work of Mark Rothko or Robert Motherwell. But he was still, when on form, a first-rate painter, well worth scholarly attention. So why have we seen so little of him? Because, it seems, the common curatorial view is that Kline was a backup man, not an innovator. This has chilled the interest of museums, if not the market. So, until a fuller retrospective comes along--this one consists of some 100 works and leaves out many of the significant ones--we can be grateful to Curator Harry Gaugh for both the show...
John Devin, Grant Blair's backup in the Harvard net, echoes the hometown sentiment. Devin was in net the last time the Crimson met the Eagles in the Beanpot--the consolation game of last year's tournament...
Harvard got a sterling performance from its backup goalie, junior Dickie McEvoy, who replaced Blair with 16 minutes left in the game...
...second bill establishes an indirect federal backup to the ailing Farm Credit System, the privately owned cooperative that holds about one-third of the nation's $213 billion farm debt. The measure seeks to redistribute the system's assets by requiring prosperous banks to help financially pressed institutions. It also offers the prospect of assistance in the event of a credit collapse, but only if specifically approved by Congress. The bill was rushed to passage to reassure the Wall Street bond market, which each year buys some $100 billion of the system's paper...
...people stuck in elevators, but our crew just went around systematically, and got them out," Kilduff said. Thanks to backup emergency generators, service at Stillman Infirmary remained unaffected except for a downed elevator...