Word: backups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...power-generation equipment. AT&T is one of 141 companies in the New York area that earn lower electric rates by participating in a voluntary power-sharing arrangement. When AT&T's main transmission facility in Manhattan switched to its generator, a power surge tripped an emergency backup system powered by batteries. Alarms were triggered to alert AT&T employees that the backup system had been activated, but audio sirens malfunctioned, and visual warnings went unnoticed for more than five hours...
...contends that safety was never compromised. But the episode raises serious questions about the agency's lack of a backup system, as well as its overwhelming reliance on AT&T, which handles more than 90% of the FAA's communications traffic. The outage is expected to revive an FAA plan to spend as much as $1 billion on a more reliable, high-tech phone system. The project had been vetoed by the General Services Administration as too costly...
Columbia senior Jason Tribolet will start at quarterback for Coach Ray Tellier. Tribolet served as backup to the Lions All-Ivy quarterback Bruce Mayhew last year. This year he will be guiding another inexperienced squad that has nothing to lose when going up against the best in the Ivy League...
Senior John Tribolet, Mayhew's backup for the past two seasons, is the favorite to take over the quarterbacking duties. He will be looking to hook up with juniors Scott Spivey and Mike Sardo on the receiving...
...quarterback Cozza has a decision to make on the successor to the very successful Darin Kehler. He also has to decide whether or not to continue with the wishbone offense that Kehler orchestrated so well. The most experienced quarterback in the lot is Kehler's backup, senior Nick Crawford...