Word: overloads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...large number of people, especially upon arriving at a campus as diverse as Harvard's, is overwhelmed by the realization of just how big the world is, and how many different ways there are of living and of seeing things. One of the natural reactions to this sensory overload is to draw back in fear, and to comfort oneself by assuming that one's way of living and thinking are the only proper ways, and that different lifestyles are in some way inferior...
...microchips in these devices often depend on electronic calendars and clocks. If you were a VCR and you suddenly thought it was 1900, you might overload just from the resulting identity crisis...
...addition to this imbalance and the voluptuous, sensory overload in the set, there was the highly lyrical language, crazed monologues, loud bar scenes and dissonant music. It is no wonder one left the performance feeling decidedly queasy. While the play may be about saturated appetites, hangovers and bitter aftertastes, surely the audience should not have experienced it just in watching...
...January 1996 there was another memo to Ickes and chief of staff Leon Panetta. This one, from Evelyn Lieberman, another deputy chief of staff, urged more coffees. In 1995 and '96 there would be a total of 103, several in a good week-- enough to produce mild caffeine overload and $27 million. But the really notable part of that memo was the warning by Lieberman that during two weeks of intense activity, "staff who routinely brief the President will be asked to be flexible during this period and accept that their briefings may be considerably truncated or eliminated...
...there seems to be a real problem that's more and more troubling in this new world of information overload--reliability...