Word: bits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...endures every five years or so, as the old game-playing systems get banished to the closet and new, more powerful ones take their place on the family TV. What is supposed to happen this year, according to the industry's timetable, is that the so-called 16-bit machines (like Sega's Genesis and Nintendo's Super NES) will be phased out in favor of machines that crunch data 32 or 64 bits at a time...
...thin blue line got a little bit thinner last weekend when dozens of New York City police officers went on a drunken rampage while attending ceremonies in Washington, D.C., honoring officers killed in the line of duty. As many as 100 of New York's finest reportedly groped female hotel guests, stole license plates or fired their weapons in the air. (One hotel says some officers stripped nude, poured beer down a lobby escalator and took turns sliding down.) A mortified Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said at an impromptu Manhattan press conference today: "To take an event that is designed...
...love with a priest, is found out and routinely and grotesquely tortured; Maria, the new bride of the Spanish king, is tortured in a different way by the couple's inability to produce an heir. Skow notes that although the parallel tales of the two women are a bit awkward, the novel is redeemed by Harrison's chilling prose about women and men trapped in societal malignancy...
...week of lobbying, socializing and expanding his movement. Tuesday morning he was in New Hampshire, where Governor Steven Merrill joked about Reed's imminent appearance before the state senate: "They want to know you don't have two heads, that you don't have horns." Reed, who looks every bit the eagle scout he once was, responded with a guffaw that was too loud by half for his 64-kg frame. The New Hampshire senate, which usually deigns to listen only to would-be Presidents, paid close attention to his message. The ranks of conservative Christians, Reed said...
...domestic program is a bit of a hodgepodge, critics would say that Chirac is most opportunistic when it comes to European union. After zigging and zagging sharply several times since 1978, last March he embraced the "complete realization of economic and monetary union" with "the Franco-German couple at its heart." Then, just days before the final vote, in what opponents said was an attempt to appeal to the right, he retraced his steps and called for a referendum on a follow-up to the pro-union Maastricht treaty...