Word: gotcha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gotcha" goal came with seconds remainingin the period and the Crimson on the power play.Cleary pulled out his surprise final-secondface-off play to fool the Raiders. Ciavaglia,Harvard's face-off specialist, pushed the puck upto Captain C.J. Young. While an evidentlyinvisible Weisbrod set up, the Red Raider defenseset back, and Gagnon ended up swallowing hissecond puck on a Weisbrod stuff that sent theCrimson into the locker room with a two-goal edge...
...mistake was allowing private parties to bring RICO suits. It works this way: You commit one illegal act. Then, anytime within 10 years, you commit another. Gotcha! RICO! See you in court...
...viruses are so playful. One particularly vicious program deletes everything stored on the computer and prints the word GOTCHA! on the screen. Another takes the form of a game called "rck.video." It delights unsuspecting users with an animation featuring the singer Madonna before erasing the files on their disks. Then it chortles, "You're stupid to download a video about rock stars...
Late at night . . . a sudden beep, a burst of light and a taunting message on the screen: GOTCHA ! Forty years after the dawn of the computer era, machines across the U. S. are being infected by a new contagion -- small but deadly programs that disrupt operations, destroy data and raise disturbing questions about the vulnerability of information systems everywhere. See TECHNOLOGY...
...fall. Don't be fooled, says President Reagan: the Democrats are just hiding their liberalism behind "trench coats and sunglasses." George Bush bragged to TIME's Hugh Sidey that he possesses, and intends to wheel out, an actual quote from Dukakis, saying "I'm a liberal Democrat." Gotcha...