Word: jam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...labor through a central unit, the work will be divided among many data processing units. The departure from the "von Neumann architecture," named for its founder, will enable programmers to avoid a "bottleneck." The rewards could be substantial since the "von Neumann bottleneck" has served as a traffic jam which severely restricts the flow of information through the one processor...
...pitched out of a similar jam in the seventh, when she fanned center fielder Kathy Walsh with runners on second and third...
...were doing this whole parody of rock concerts. Joseph [Jarman] came out naked as a joke, pretending to jam on a guitar, and everything was cool. We had these smoke bombs, though, and we were throwing em out into the audience--but then we found out they were fire bombs instead. Sleeping bags were catching fire and the crowd throwing the bombs back. People thought we were trying to sabotage the festival," he laughs...
...strokes Aksyonov contrasts the glittering hedonism of the islanders to the squalid austerity that prevails on the Soviet mainland. In Aksyonov's fancy, Crimea is the hog heaven of the conspicuous consumer. Dom Perignon flows like vodka in the luxury cafés and restaurants. Ferraris and Cadillacs jam the freevays on veekends. (In the original, Aksyonov used the English words transliterated into Russian.) Glass-and-steel houses cling to the island's sheer rock cliffs, in defiance of frequent earthquakes. In short, Crimea resembles nothing so much as Southern California, where, as it happens, Aksyonov spent...
...Pentagon touted the sleek, speedy M-1 Abrams tank as a revolutionary superweapon when it was put into production in November 1981. There was only one problem: the tank's engine, built by the Avco Corp.'s Lycoming division, had a tendency to jam...