Word: bug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defeat by George McGovern in the primaries of 1972, he seemed extinct. But within the past few weeks, the 64-year-old Minnesotan has risen from the political dead, looking more buoyant than ever. "There's no doubt about it," says Presidential Candidate Morris Udall, "Hubert has the bug again." Adds a top staffer at the Democratic National Committee: "The Humphrey talk is everywhere now. You hear it not only from state party people but from elected officials. You hear it from blacks, you hear it from unions. You hear it from moderates and extreme liberals. You hear...
...Gold Bug. Lisbon's foreign earnings have been badly hurt by the drastic drop in tourism. Germans, Britons and Americans who once flocked to the sandy beaches of Cascais and the Algarve have been frightened off by the political turmoil. Now falling at the rate of $100 million per month, Portugal's foreign-currency reserves will be exhausted by the end of the year. Although Lisbon could then draw upon its huge gold stocks-worth $5 billion at current market prices, making it the eighth largest hoard in the world-any significant sale of bullion would likely...
...town was empty of its 38,000 people." The ARVN fought hard and well at Xuan Loc. But by the time Halstead and other journalists got back to their helicopter they found it surrounded and overrun, not only by frightened civilians but by soldiers who were understandably trying to bug...
...accords) and an infinite number of rumors. "Just pick up any hotel phone and ask for rumor service," said one correspondent wryly. Ambassador Graham Martin, never a favorite of the U.S. press corps, has discouraged his aides from talking to journalists. Said a U.S. official: "The ambassador has a bug about the American press...
...someone, somewhere-but whom?-the memorandum circulated recently at Harvard Business School's division of computer service doubtless made perfect sense. It read, in full: "We have been informed by DEC that a bug in the normalization algorithm used in three MACRO instructions (FADL, FSBL and FMPL) can cause a FORTRAN double precision compare to give incorrect results. A double precision compare should be accurate to 16 digits. This bug can cause the compare to give incorrect results in the ninth digit. We will notify all Users as soon as we receive a solution to the problem from...