Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mile for every dollar spent. The credit line was tiny, but the sense of possibility was enormous; why, if I just bought a car, a VCR, a computer, a fax machine and a washer-dryer set, I could go to State College, and back, for free (depending on availability, blackout dates and routings...
...bigger bottles -- longer plays -- with the same effervescence he compresses into this six-pack. Meantime, here is an evening of great pleasure and promise. How delicious, in these dour theater days of revivals and stillbirths, to have something to look forward to -- again (ding!) and again (ding!) and again (blackout...
...biggest headline grabber, however, which eventually led to so much publicity that the MGH News Office placed a general blackout on further interviews with laboratory personnel, involved a triple therapy designed by fourth-year M.D.-Ph.D. student Yung-Kang Chow that had successfully knocked out HIV-1, the most common virus which causes AIDS...
...roommate and I, always searching for new ways to procrastinate, decided not to risk erasing our theses by booting up in the midst of a potential electrical blackout. (Yes, of course, we could have saved on disk every few minutes, but it seemed too good an excuse to claim the gods had decreed no electronic work be done that...
...however, the blackout backfired. Now aware of The Crimson's interest, employees in areas of UHS that reporters had not even thought of visiting began calling. One reporter got six calls alone from disgruntled workers in the UHS clinical laboratory, who talked about mishandling of laboratory specimens and offered suggestions for different articles...