Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Face it, if you still have 128k you're living in the dark ages. Leave the cave, walk upright and get some more memory. 512k of RAM (random access memory, or available storage space) allows you to stash more information in the computer at any given time. You can write longer papers, and your Mac will even perform many operations faster because it will have to access the disk drive less often. Especially if you are considering writing a thesis, or are upset with the snail-like pace of your computer, you need the added memory...
...psychologist spoke of a "dark side of humankind" that he said often affects scientists and their motives. "This dark side," he said, "is embodied in institutions which harness technology. Nationalism and the ideologies which support it are the vehicle for the dark side in the nuclear...
...This game puts us back in the dark horse position," Captain Scott Collins said after the Dartmouth demolition. "We may surprise some people. We can't control our own destiny, but we can win it." Collins believes that the eventual Ivy champion will have at least one loss, and he might be right...
With a bit a cheating, one or more powers could overrun and withstand attack from the others. This would return us to the dark ages of the Cold War when Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower used or considered using nuclear weapons to decimate portions of the world population. In other words, threats by irrational dictators or other third parties could easily overwhelm a treaty between the U.S. and the USSR, returning the two nations to the frightening doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction...
...particularly emasculating fine if you are caught ahead of the Firing Line; it cuts your nets off. This happened to Eddie Wannage a month ago. "It took my Dad 30 hours to make new ones. I lost five prime nights during a full moon," he says. It is dark now, the water as black as used motor oil, and the lights on the rocking boats describe a skyline suffering slippage. No one is taking in much shrimp this night, least of all Eddie, whose nets snare more flounder and speckled trout than anything...