Word: letdowns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...computer world experienced that feeling of letdown that comes when a well-publicized hurricane fails to hit, nobody could blame the object at the center of the storm -- the tiny computer program called Michelangelo. Like all other computer viruses, it was designed to hide within a computer's instructions and spread to other systems by copying itself over and over. But while most computer viruses do benign things -- such as whistle Yankee Doodle -- Michelangelo is pernicious. It was programmed to wipe out all the data in any infected IBM-compatible personal computer on March 6, Michelangelo's birthday...
...thing that Harvard must guard against is a letdown coming off an exhilarating two-point overtime victory over Princeton last Saturday...
...guess normally it would be a letdown [after the Beanpot], but this is Yale," Burke said...
What she will say about her beloved rock idols is less clear. Megasuccess may be poisoning them. She finds Michael Jackson's current album "appalling," Prince a letdown, Madonna drifting. "She wants to cover all frontiers, but she has very little talent for acting," says one of the Material Girl's most vocal fans...
...individuals who made the transition between high school and college possible," he says. "I don't have that one-on-one advising anymore. Post-Ginger Mackay-Smith is a letdown...