Word: bugging
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...year's supply of dehydrated food in their basement or their stockpiles of canned chicken chow mein. It's the water bed. The collapse of public utilities is one of the big worries among the Y2K-anxious--meaning people concerned about the breakdown of everything because of the millennium bug that could lead to serious computer malfunction in the year 2000. (More on that later.) So the Eckharts bought Danielle a water bed. That way, in a pinch, they have an extra 300 gallons on hand. Danielle is a little nonplussed. "I hope we don't end up drinking...
...millennium at the stroke of midnight on Dec. 31. But by more careful calculations, the millennium began a few years ago. A large part of the misunderstanding stems from Dionysius Exiguus--Latin for "Dennis the Short"--a 6th century monk who should be thought of as the original millennium bug. Dennis laid down the basis for the calendars we use today by figuring how far in the past Christ's birth was. As it turns out, he was off by several years. Historians now place the Nativity no later than 4 B.C., the year King Herod died. By that reckoning...
MILLENNIAL CONCERNS 999: Impending Day of Judgment 1999: Impending Y2K bug...
...COMMERCIAL BUG...
Most of us can't remember our first vaccination, but chances are, it was a shot filled with a crippled microbe or perhaps parts of the bug's proteins--just enough to produce a mild infection but not the full-blown disease. Immunizing people against a host of infections in this way has worked reasonably well for more than a century, but geneticists think they can do better...