Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand: The light at the end of Auckland's dark tunnel just went out: The blackout, 12 days old, will last another 10 weeks. Attempts to repair two of the massive power cables feeding downtown Auckland have failed, and the city will have to rely on generator power (about 10 percent) until new cables can be run into town by Auckland city utility Mercury Energy...
...hunt will focus first, says Richard Butler, head of the U.N. Special Commission that runs the inspections, on what might have been hidden during the blackout period. Then his team will try again to enter suspected weapons sites from which the Iraqis, violating Security Council resolutions, have repeatedly barred inspectors. Of most concern to the specialists is the arsenal of biological weapons they are certain Saddam is still concealing. Germ weapons like anthrax and botulinum are so deadly, so easy to make and hide that the monitors are not prepared to take the Iraqis' word that they have destroyed their...
UNPLUGGED. MARS PATHFINDER lander and its plucky rover SOJOURNER; following a Sept. 27 blackout, probably brought on by exposure to the cold Martian elements. During their four-month tenure, the lander and rover transmitted more than 16,550 pictures...
...That was the question surrounding YASSER ARAFAT last week after an Egyptian official leaked word that the Palestinian leader had passed out during a contretemps with the Foreign Minister of Qatar while in Cairo. Arafat's office says no, but a Palestinian official, speaking to TIME, confirmed the blackout, saying Arafat's lips turned blue and his eyes rolled into the back of his head before a doctor came to revive him. The collapse occurred as Arafat tried to convince HAMAD BIN JASSIM that Qatar should cancel a Middle East economic conference to protest the paralysis in the Israeli-Palestinian...
Since then the Boulder police department has understandably and pretty successfully enforced a media blackout in the interest of the investigation. But last week Boulder police chief Thomas Koby made an unusual appearance on local television. There was still no suspect, he said, but he thought it would be "healing" to let people know they were doing all they could. (Very Boulder, I thought, in keeping with a place where snow is cleared from bicycle paths before roads.) Accusing the national press of an "intrusive...assault," he said, "[this case] is something that means a great deal to the Boulder...