Word: biters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...verb that means to become unusable, as in "the monitor gronked"), gweep (one who spends unusually long periods of time hacking), cuspy (anything that is exceptionally good or performs its functions exceptionally well), dink (to modify in some small way so as to produce large or catastrophic results), bag biter (equipment or program that fails, usually intermittently) and deadlock (a situation wherein two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for the other to do something. This is the electronic equivalent of gridlock, a lovely, virtually perfect word that describes automobile traffic paralyzed both ways through...
...underscore that message, NASA barely let the dust settle from Columbia's landing before dispatching its second ship, Challenger, to Cape Canaveral. Hitchhiking atop a specially adapted Boeing 747, the new or biter passed low over the reviewing stand at California's Edwards Air Force Base while a military band played God Bless America. Reagan likened the conclusion of the shuttle test program to the driving of the golden spike that marked the completion of the first transcontinental railroad...
...early in the week as well, battling the Big Green at home at 2 p.m. on Tuesday. Even though it's only one match, the team had a tough time with Dartmouth when they met in the Howe Cup tourney three weeks ago, and it should be another nall-biter...
...while Brown carries an 11-3 mark. The top Crimson scorers are Sue St. Louis, with ten goals and five assists, and Laurie Gregg, with nine and six. Brown is led by Ivy League tournament MVP Frances Fusco and outstanding sweeper back Yvonne Goldsberry. It'll be a nail-biter...
Nearly as big as the U.S., this plateau is literally out of the world-on Venus. Though the perpetual cloud cover of the earth's nearest planetary neighbor has kept its surface tantalizingly hidden, Venus' veil is being lifted by a gifted robot. The Pioneer-Venus Or biter spacecraft has been circling the planet since December 1978, analyzing its atmosphere and scanning and rescanning its surface with radar. Last week NASA released the first renderings of these extraterrestial data, revealing a dramatic and awesome landscape still in the process of formation. Though 60% of the Venusian topography consists...