Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...savvy taxpayer. You want to know what all those computerized stealth thingies are for. Take either ? according to your mood: tragedy or satire ? Lumet or Kubrick, Fail-Safe (1964) or Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963). And watch them nukes fall...
...Next spring, there will be a test of the payroll system actually running with the system date set forward to the year 2000," says Gene C. Madden, managing auditor of information systems. "Each unit based on what the system is and what the impact would be were it to fail has developed some of its own testing plans...
Only physically did Mother Teresa's heart fail her, subjecting her to years of illness that finally led to her death last week at age 87. She had always been adamant about who owned her heart. "People think we are social workers," she once told one of her spiritual advisers, Father Edward Le Joly. "We are not. We serve Jesus. I serve Jesus 24 hours...
From drifters who log onto accounts that are left open when users fail to log out at public terminals-such as those in the Science Center-to hackers who continually test the system for quick ins, Osterberg said the pitfalls of just one user's compromising a password can snowball into major security concerns...
...more ammunition to color-blind conservatives than to the liberals he intends it for, while the exhortations of Coleman and Shipler--that white Americans should look within and take up the cross of racial healing--will appeal mainly to those who already have. That three ambitious, intelligent books should fail to break much new ground suggests, sadly, how difficult thinking and writing about race in an innovative way has become for most Americans. But it reminds us too how important it is to keep trying...