Word: froze
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...machine worked fine, but then I discovered that TPC had not duplicated my original purchase order: they had forgotten to install an ethernet card. It took another week of phone calls to get one. Then, when I went to print, the screen froze up! I popped out the card and everything was OK: so the card had been the culprit all along. It had been wholly unnecessary for TPC to give me a new computer . And my original machine's ' three weeks at Tech Services had been a total waste of time: they completely rebuilt it but never thought...
...When she turned to Beth, her sister looked as if she had just fallen peacefully asleep. Her hand was tucked under her cheek. When Jo came closer, she realized her sister was past sleep, past dreaming. Jo froze. She waited to see her sister's shoulders rise and fall, for her to begin breathing again...
...Froze the funds of 185 Southern California school districts, towns and local agencies, casting doubt on pensions and payrolls for everyone from teachers to trash haulers...
...Schmitt, getting up there to debate the future of student government at Harvard took a lot of chutzpah (or ignorance). Deep down, I was almost rooting for the guy. Too bad he froze, like a deer in the headlights, when my fellow panelist Josh Feltman '95 asked him some specific questions about life at Harvard...
...Chavis was a primary focus, the special, closed-door session was as much about the future purpose of the 85-year-old civil-rights organization. The N.A.A.C.P. is saddled with a budget deficit of between $3 million and $4 million. Earlier last week the Ford Foundation, a longtime supporter, froze the first half of a two-year $500,000 grant because of concerns about the organization's management. Several N.A.A.C.P. chapters have suspended dues payments for essentially the same reason. Meanwhile, even as other civil- rights organizations have reshaped their agendas, the N.A.A.C.P. flounders in histrionics and glitzy but pointless...