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Tomassoni's allusion to the blackout that annulled Game Four of the 1990 Stanley Cup Finals between the Bruins and the Edmonton Oilers seemed pretty appropriate, outside of considerations that the delay was only about three days shorter and irritated only about 50,000,000 fewer people...
Last night's blackout was "not that bad" compared to the power outage in Jordan last year, which occurred late at night during the exam period, said Head Tutor Rick M. Goodson...
Judge Lance Ito formally proposed an electronic media blackout of the O.J. Simpson trial today. The no-nonsense jurist said that media companies had to give him reasons why he should not issue an order to that effect in a hearing on November 7. Ito has been angry at television reporters since a KNBC-TV report last week that linked Nicole Simpson's blood to that found on O.J.'s socks. Ito called the story inaccurate, and was infuriated when the station repeated it the following day. The TV outlet has since recanted much of its story...
None of these problems has the weight of the Yard's telephone blackout. Many lines in Canaday and Pennypacker did not operate at all for the first week of the move in. Scores of first-years couldn't even beg their neighbors for telephone time; they had to stroll out to the little NYNEX kiosk by Holworthy to have the privilege of phone service...
Located in the Science Center basement, the UPS can supply power to the equipment in the machine room should there be a brownout or blackout...