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...worst case, rotate scheduled blackouts among the communities it serves. A similar rotation of brief blackouts was imposed on Jan. 17 by Virginia Electric & Power and the Southern Co. when demand for heating during the big freeze-combined with equipment shutdowns elsewhere due to the freezing weather -threatened to overload their systems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: CAN IT HAPPEN ELSEWHERE? | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...intercollegiate sports have provided a pattern of development to a recently emerging organization of women's athletics. Hopefully those who will guide this movement will not simply accept the values behind men's athletics without questioning them. Hopefully, in a quest for equality, they will not overload a precious opportunity to find a different, better...

Author: By Bob Baggott, | Title: First Adam, Then Eve | 3/25/1977 | See Source »

...snowing heavily. Winter was having a last grand gesture before the vernal equinox arrived to formally announce spring. The snow glittered as it swirled around headlights and street lamps. It covered Cambridge clean and white beneath the black sky. The Square, too, swirled--with its overload of traffic, its wanderers, its happy groups, its solitary, carefully-dressed people whose hurry spoke of imminent rendezvous...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: A Spell of Style | 3/22/1977 | See Source »

...going to let the computer overload one area with minorities and one area with preppies," Williams said about the plan, which would closely resemble Yale's model for choosing residencies...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Task Force Favors 'No-Choice' Housing | 1/4/1977 | See Source »

...during the Olympic coverage functioned mainly as stepping-stones in the flow of images. If there was some confusion about what was "live" and what was on tape, it hardly made a difference. The men of the electronic age were desperately trying to tell a story that would not overload our frayed human wiring. The degree to which they succeeded was summed up best by Novelist-Screenwriter Josh Greenfeld: "On Tuesday afternoon I didn't know anything about gymnastics. By Thursday night, Olga Korbut had let me down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIEWPOINT: The Widest World of Sports | 8/9/1976 | See Source »

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