Word: blip
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...Chandler Pavilion, while back at Stax Records in Memphis there must have been astonished cheers. Hayes had become the first African American to win a music Oscar (or, indeed, an Oscar in any category except for acting). But that belated recognition was less a harbinger of enlightenment than a blip on the rainbow radar. No black musician would cop another Oscar until 1985, when Prince was honored for the score of Purple Rain...
...four-year low, and the country has made significant progress in establishing stability. But will it last? Or does the situation conform more to a report out of the Government Accountability Office? That one suggests that this period of calm, like others before it, is just a momentary blip...
...summer vacation begins, 17 girls at Gloucester High School are expecting babies - more than four times the number of pregnancies the 1,200-student school had last year. Some adults dismissed the statistic as a blip. Others blamed hit movies like Juno and Knocked Up for glamorizing young unwed mothers. But principal Joseph Sullivan knows at least part of the reason there's been such a spike in teen pregnancies in this Massachusetts fishing town. School officials started looking into the matter as early as October, after an unusual number of girls began filing into the school clinic to find...
...system itself is the “safety net” intended to provide power during the few minutes the electrical power grid may suddenly fail, according to Harvard Computer Society president Joshua A. Kroll ’09. The system also provides a “blip in power” if officials briefly shut down the data center for electrical work, he said...
...team tied for fourth place. Though the season-ending 2-1 loss at Columbia dashed the team’s hopes of finishing as high as second in the Ivies, the players feel confident that the team is on an upward trajectory. The late-fall fade represented a slight blip in an otherwise progressive trend—in 2006, the Crimson was 4-13, though 4-3 in conference play. “I think we were all disappointed, but all in all, I thought it was a pretty fun season,” co-captain Devon Shapiro said. Everything...