Word: blink
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...head of Columbia University's industrial engineering department: "We will need people who can understand the whole complex electronic and mechanical machinery of these new manufacturing cells, and who can intervene quickly to repair them." Otherwise, warns Melman, downtime from sophisticated electronics gear that suddenly goes on the blink-as it is wont to do-will paralyze factories. Indeed, the new technology is liable to place unprecedented demands on corporations for retraining at all levels, including management. That by itself could prove a more expensive and time-consuming undertaking than proponents of CAD/CAM would like to admit...
...barrels. And you'd better be screaming like a banshee when you come up for air. I had one more barrel to go under and as I dove down I could see an officer pissing into the ditch, just to spite me. I was so psyched I didn't blink an eye, and I broke water yelling as loud as I could...
Sally was wearing a strapless white gown with a full ballerina-length skirt. Atop her dark blond hair was a rhinestone tiara. The carnations she had shamed Jed into sending were tied on her wrist. She was overcome with pride and had to blink back tears. This was the moment each Ingenue had been working for all year. This was the whole glorious reason for the bake sales, the car washes, the raffles. She glanced with a proprietary smile at Jed in his rented white dinner jacket. He wore a ruffled shirt, and a plaid cummerbund and bow tie. Across...
...each other every second. That, of course, requires extremely precise synchronization. Yet even after repeated troubleshooting, the controllers in Houston found that Columbia's primary computers were a 25th of a second ahead of the backup. For human beings, a 25th of a second is a mere blink of the eye. But for the computers it was a yawning gap that put communications between the overeager main machines and their back-up badly "out of sync," turning their exchanges into electronic gibberish. Said an exasperated controller in Houston: "The back-up computer simply couldn't talk...
...heady prospects of steamrolling the economic package through Congress. When Senators and Congressmen asked Reagan's aides how much of his program the President really insists on getting, they replied solemnly, "He has said he will settle for 97%." Noted one aide: "They don't even blink at us." Even among Democrats on Capitol Hill there is no willingness to oppose the Reagan drive broadly, since they agree with its aims, have no comprehensive alternatives to offer and fear that opposition would be political suicide. So far, the main tactic of resistance has been to support budget...