Word: backups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Says English-born Author Christopher Isherwood (Berlin Stories), who lives in Santa Monica, Calif.: "Americans are awfully rattled about their jobs. Can they deliver properly, can they do it? Life is a nasty, rough game, always was. Some people can't face it without some sort of backup." Rajendra Misra, Indian-born executive director of a community health center in East Cleveland, Ohio, maintains: "Right from childhood in this country there is pressure for accomplishment. Every time we do something, we are made aware of the fact that either we are achieving or we are failing. There...
...NOTEBOOK--Backup goalie Lily Pew starred in her debut at left attack wing, shooting three times and finding the Big Green twine on each attempt...Francesca Den Hartog was named ECAC player of the week last week for her performance in the Eastern championships...
...Crimson scored four goals in the first six minutes of the period, but then watched as the Elis equaled that output with four straight markers to close out the quarter, all against Harvard's backup goaltender, T.J. Woel...
...have to be in constant conversation, performing as many as 440 checks on each other every second. That, of course, requires extremely precise synchronization. Yet even after repeated troubleshooting, the controllers in Houston found that Columbia's primary computers were a 25th of a second ahead of the backup. For human beings, a 25th of a second is a mere blink of the eye. But for the computers it was a yawning gap that put communications between the overeager main machines and their back-up badly "out of sync," turning their exchanges into electronic gibberish. Said an exasperated controller...
Brown senior Charlie Meister didn't score any goals. Or any assists. In fact, he probably wasn't within three passes of any of his team's tallies. You see. Brown senior Charlie Meister is a backup goalie. But somehow his entrance into Saturday's lacrosse game with Harvard ignited Bruno's offensive boosters, propelling the Bruins past a crumbling Crimson squad, 11-9, at the Business School Field...