Word: erraticism
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Even after four years, it comes back in a sweep. All it takes is one glimpse of a hockey shirt with U.S.A. planted on the front, and suddenly the scene re-erupts in the mind: sticks waved like flags, teammates hugging, a crowd in sweet tears. Odd for the summertime...
Aware of the machines' fickle past, the controllers promptly shut down the No. 3 computer on Columbia in order to keep it as a fail-safe reserve and relegated No. 4 to managing the vehicle's environmental systems. The fifth computer was on standby. Later, when he was...
Thus it was necessary to watch The Game, an erratic affair in which the opposing quarterbacks spent most of their time scuttling about behind their own lines trying to avoid destruction. Greg Gizzi of Harvard generally succeeded in this effort, and Mike Curtin of Yale generally did not. Penalties and...
Riddled by Erratic Play
Four years after the popular uprising that overthrew the bloody and grasping dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaragua is still lurching through an erratic political and social transformation, in which many of the ultimate goals of the regime are, at best, haphazardly defined. Consequently, Nicaragua abounds in paradox and ambiguity...