Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remember times in days long gone by when the fas computer would crash, but somehow husc7 would find a way to trudge on through the adversity, delivering our e-mail when no other computer would. And on yet other occasions, we remember the load being so heavy on fas that e-mail would become inaccessible for hours at a time. But husc7 would keep zipping right along, completely indifferent to the travails of the other computers...
...academic or professional career on the line. After all, what if the STONED virus had infected John Locke's disk and eaten up his Second Treatise before he published it? What would the world be like if Newton's Principia had been the victim of a hard disk head crash...
...hours without pause. (The director had already gained notoriety for threatening to fire employees who took bathroom breaks while shooting True Lies.) After working 13 days in a row before Christmas, the Titanic crew set up a spectacular special-effects sequence in which thousands of gallons of water would crash through a glass dome atop a staircase inside the ship. The stunt coordinator's written assessment of hazards associated with the sequence included "risk of drowning," but a crew member says exhausted workers actually fell asleep during a morning safety meeting meant to minimize the danger. Producer Jon Landau says...
While in Mexico, the film's American crew members were driven to and from their hotels, but local workers did not receive similar treatment. A Tijuana woman was severely injured in a crash after working until 3 a.m. as a script supervisor. And TIME has obtained a memo from construction coordinator Les Collins protesting to managers that local laborers, who were required to work 12-hour days, received only bread and milk during a morning break as their meal for the day. At one point, even that was cut back. "It is deplorable that we have witnessed our workers digging...
...anything," explains Armyan Bernstein, one of Air Force One's four producers, "but he knows how to fight." The back story is that this President served in Vietnam as a helicopter pilot and won a Congressional Medal of Honor for fighting his way out of the jungle after a crash. "At last," went one of the film's proposed (and rejected) advertising slogans, "America has a kick-ass President." The ways in which real Presidents respond to terrorism, launch surgical strikes and the like will no doubt seem effete by comparison...