Word: networks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...energy agency, whose sprawling, $8.1 billion-a-year nuclear-weapons network includes ten plants and four labs around the country, countered by promising new safeguards and safety procedures. Among the promised corrective measures: establishing better management guidelines for private contractors, like Rockwell, Westinghouse and Du Pont, who now operate DOE facilities; hiring better-trained engineers; and instilling employees with the proper "mental attitude" toward safety...
...response was unlikely to mollify congressional critics like Ohio Democratic Senator John Glenn, who sponsored a proposal to appoint a civilian panel to oversee safety at DOE facilities. A watered-down version has become law, but it allows DOE leeway to monitor the network. "There is no evidence the DOE can police itself," says Michael Clark, president of the Environmental Policy Institute in Washington. The agency's weapons-production personnel, he adds, "are a rogue bureaucracy that is out of control...
Peter Heffernan, a manager of OIT's Network Services Department, said that, since many students purchased systems last year when the sales program was first introduced, this year's sales were intended for "freshmen or people that missed out last year." He added that "more people are coming to school with their own P.C.'s [personal computers...
...much of Harvard's service was affected by the failure, Manager of Network Operations Paul Conway said...
...sure that the players would not start playing during timeouts. the officials assumed the TV timeout position. Each official stood still at a certain part of the field with his hands behind his back as if he was playing Freeze Tag. They wouldn't budge until the Total Sports Network gave the signal to resume play...