Word: blinks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Signs of breakdown are all around. At one time, 1,500 traffic signals were on the blink because the city had failed to pay its electricity bill. Police officers who wanted their cars to run gassed up and made repairs themselves. Even then, the cops were not investigating anything but the worst crimes. Residents who call 911 sometimes end up with just a file number for insurance purposes. Because the water-treatment plant is inadequate, the District has issued several advisories in the past year cautioning residents to boil water before drinking it. The city has shut down two fire...
...suffering race relations at Harvard are not analogous to my "on the blink computer." If my printer isn't printing, I can turn to page 47 for a checklist of possibilities and then fix it. But I can't really do that with race relations. It just doesn't work and it has an ugly flavor to it. Let me help y'all out: the key to fixing what is "broken" with race relations at Harvard lies not in fine tuning something on the surface-like tightening a screw. It lies in preventing it from getting broken in the first...
Inside BETA's one-story control room, a workstation displays patterns of green and red spikes; lights blink on a bank of small computers; and needles flutter on glowing dials. From a stereo amplifier comes a static-filled hiss, the audio version of radio waves piped directly from the antenna above. The display amuses graduate student Darren Leigh, hard at work debugging a BETA computer program. "We do a few things here for the tourists," he explains. "Camera crews love this stuff...
NEWT GINGRICH USED TO DREAM last spring about the day when he would get to sit down and play a kind of Russian roulette with the President. The stakes would be very high. The whole government would be held hostage while the country waited to see who would blink. The House Speaker would confront Bill Clinton with a choice: Sign a historic balanced-budget plan on Republican terms or watch the government shut down. ''Which of the two of us do you think cares more about the government not showing up?" Gingrich asked...
REPUBLICANS BLINK...