Word: clocked
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...center of the Year 2000 mess is fairly simple. In what's proving to be a ludicrously shortsighted shortcut, many system programmers set aside only two digits to denote the year in dates, as in 06/15/98 rather than 06/15/1998. Trouble is, when the computer's clock strikes 2000, the math can get screwy. Date-based equations like 98 - 97 = 1 become 00 - 97 = -97. That can prompt some computers to do the wrong thing and stop others from doing anything...
...Most Wanted, for instance, could be a topic on Oprah's show: the book is about Texas Teenagers Who Fall Desperately in Love with Convicts--and it's about childless mothers and motherless children. Dorman has said she and Mitchard raced the clock to get the book into the hands of beach readers. The haste shows. Predictable and melodramatic, The Most Wanted lacks the depth of The Deep End of the Ocean, which was a moving portrait of a family in the aftermath of a child's kidnapping...
PARIS: As one embarassing conflict ended, so another began. Air France pilots reached a strike-breaking deal early Wednesday with just hours left on the clock before the World Cup began -- but any feelings of relief in the French capital were dampened by clashes between drunken fans and overzealous police on the Champs Elysées. During what was supposed to be a celebration of the global tournament, security-minded gendarmes pushed the crowd behind a maze of barriers. Several hundred local supporters started throwing bottles, and riot troops responded with tear gas. With 34 injured and 50 arrested...
While Bridget spends the holidays trashing the Smug Marrieds who are giving a party, O'Faolain spends her Christmas walking and reading alone and envying the married friends she visits, "laughing and talking in bed...and when the clock goes off in the morning, they start again, talking to each other. What happened to me?" she asks, and answers...
...apartment search, we did not have the luxury of concluding in such a manner. My roommates and I were told that if we didn't put money down on an apartment we liked today, it would be gone. Four other people were lined up to take it, the clock was ticking fast. "You are not going to find another one like this for the money. If you like it, you should take it now," the broker said. We were told we could not say, "Wait, we need more information...