Word: blackout
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: Pink is the new blackout...
...Eleganza inculcates the next generation with the notion that people will like them if they dress like they’re going clubbing in Berlin. Truth be told, we’ve never even bothered to see the show. Schonberger almost went sophomore year, but instead he got extremely blackout, got kicked out of the Busta Rhymes concert for being belligerent, and then attempted to enter the Business School to see another fictional concert that he had invented in his mind. But honestly, do we really need to see it? Do you really need to masturbate into a condom...
...Every day, you get to open up a new window and have a little piece of chocolate, which is vaguely satisfying but mostly it just tickles your pickle for more chocolate. Sometimes you just lose it and eat like 5 pieces of chocolate at once, and then get so blackout that you have to skip a few days to let the dust settle. But needless to say, every silver lining has a dark, foreboding cloud around it. When you arrive at these Senior Bar events, you can never forget for a moment where you are. Just before the bar opens...
...learn how to protect themselves when those institutions can't. Since 1993, the federal government's Community Emergency Response Team program has trained civilians to be auxiliary first responders - a formalized, more effective version of the Manhattan businessmen who loosened their ties and directed traffic during the 2003 blackout. The program is now available in more than 2000 jurisdictions. "If the people in Louisiana had been better educated," says RAND consultant Glenn Melnick, "the loss of property would have been the same, but we would have lost a lot fewer lives...
...they are, say, in the insurance sector. Antonio López, Madrid-based director of analysis at Fortis Bank, argues that opposition to E.ON's cross-border dash for Endesa signals the Spanish government "is worried about supply." "If the company is German, it will experience any shortage or blackout from a distance," he says. "But [the blackouts] will happen in Spain. And blackouts are political issues. They cost votes." But even a safe supply needs to feel like good value to the end user. In truth, it is far from clear that energy consolidation benefits the European economy...