Word: offing
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Despite the city's increasing reliance on computers in the information age, some of its systems rely on old-fashioned devices and were never under a Y2K threat to begin with.
For example, Cambridge currently receives its water from Waltham's Quabbin Reservoir through the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA). Most of the MWRA's control systems are mechanical, according to Timothy W.D. MacDonald, the city's manager of water operations.
MacDonald says there is "very little likelihood" of a water disruption.
And, last June, a Dartmouth junior died of the same ailment.
These students had all contracted bacterial meningitis, a disease that in recent years has increasingly hit college campuses, drawing the media's eye and prompting thousands of students to pay for costly vaccinations.