Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Summer in New York City, 1977. A record heat wave, a Yankee pennant drive, a blackout and a looting spree. For the tabloids and news shows, and for six unlucky people who died at the business end of his .44, that scalding season belonged...
...hotel rooms on the cyberblock, online auctions became the deal-seeking traveler's best friend. Now Budget Rent a Car wants a piece of the action: at www.bid.drivebudget.com customers can name their price for, say, four days in a Dodge in Denver--and then hope Budget accepts the offer. Blackout dates apply, so don't expect deals in peak travel periods...
...eerie moment for owners of electronic pagers last May, when 45 million of the units across North America suddenly flickered and died. The blackout was caused not by some routine equipment failure but by a massive storm on the surface of the sun that shorted out an Earth-orbiting communications satellite. Such solar typhoons are not uncommon, and the damage they do can be considerable. Last week NASA announced that it may now be possible to predict the storms and take action to limit their impact...
...thick, multi-sectioned equivalent of the Sunday ritual back home--had tabloid fronts of the king in his kaffeyiah, the red-and-white checkers falling over the fold, and a young Jordanian boy kissing this official portrait on the streets of Amman. In the moments before the news blackout that is Shabbat here, the prime minister's office said all Israel wished well for the royal family; on Saturday, many synagogues included the king's name in the prayers for the sick. Sunday, when the king died, Israel was one of the first countries to express its grief and announce...
This attitude isn't as rare as it may sound, nor as crudely right-wing. The left-leaning journal Utne Reader has published a booklet of essays that paints the feared millennial blackout as a cross between an Amish barn raising and a perpetual Earth Day. "As we prepare for Y2K, something surprising and quite wonderful is going to happen," writes Eric Utne, the journal's founder and the editor of Y2K Citizen's Action Guide. "We're going to get to know our neighbors." And not by stealing their larders at gunpoint, either. Emerging from the pamphlet's lofty...