Word: boated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...continues to live with him. As the men talk, a changing landscape of fancy houses, junkyards, suburbs and woods unscrolls on either side of them. Two football fields away, over Duley's shoulder, the blue jackstaff light marks the front end of 45 million lbs. of cargo that the boat they are on, the Michael J. Grainger, is pushing up the Ohio River. Black water purls gently off bargesides...
...board and a zero-tolerance drug policy enforced with random testing. Even a crew bent on mayhem would have trouble scheduling it. The tows run 24 hours a day, and for the length of their 30-day shifts, the boatmen never touch dry land except to take a boat through a lock...
...computer industry wanted to rock the boat. And no one could alter the course IBM had set, not even the International Standards Organization, which adopted the four-digit date standard in the 1970s. The Pentagon promised to adopt century-friendly dates around 1974, then sat on its hands. Bemer himself wrote the earliest published Y2K warnings--first in 1971, then again in 1979. Greeted by nothing but derision, he retired in 1982. "How do you think I feel about this thing?" says Bemer, now an officer at his own Y2K software firm. "I made it possible to do four digits...
...different group context," Faiz P. Shakai '02 says. "We're all going through reading period here. We're all in the same boat," he said...
...WORST Broadway high-flyer Garth Drabinsky (Show Boat, Ragtime) crashed to earth as new partners found his company, Livent, to be awash in red ink. Now Livent is in bankruptcy, tours are in limbo and Drabinsky...