Word: bunkerism
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...finance companies are required by law to back up securities transaction data, and in the last decade those organizations became some of the most sophisticated buyers of IT storage services, contracting with companies such as EMC and Hitachi for the latest devices, and archiving their digital records in remote, bunker-like facilities operated by companies like Iron Mountain, based in Boston. Account records and trading transactions are typically backed up in real time...
...President had already given his detail. Much of the talk even in this trauma and at that level of authority was father-son talk, reasserting his faith that No. 43 was up to the task. The later news reports of his son hunkered down in an Omaha, Neb., bunker irritated his father, even though he had learned long ago that every presidential move is found by ever present critics to be either too fast or too slow...
...stakes are as high as they can get. No wonder Bush looked the way he did Tuesday. He disappeared for precious hours in a bunker in Nebraska, which cost more precious hours the next day, as his aides tried to quiet criticism from his allies on the Hill that he should have returned immediately to the White House. (Senator Chuck Hagel reminded his colleagues that "this isn't a John Wayne movie," and he was right.) But this was the wrong time for spinning...
...suggestions, to show that the capital stood unbowed--much as, a century earlier, Abraham Lincoln insisted that the construction of the Capitol dome be completed in the midst of the Civil War. Similarly, on Tuesday President Bush decided to end the day in Washington rather than in a NORAD bunker. On Friday he presided over a national day of prayer, giving prominent roles to people of all races and creeds, including a Muslim religious leader...
...President had already given his detail. Much of the talk even in this trauma and at that level of authority was father-son talk, reasserting his faith that No. 43 was up to the task. The later news reports of his son hunkered down in an Omaha, Neb., bunker irritated his father, even though he had learned long ago that every presidential move is found by ever present critics to be either too fast or too slow...