Word: storm
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...more than three-quarters of the country's electricity. "People forget that electric utilities have equipment failures and outages all the time," says Arnold. He acknowledges that "it's not going to be a typical New Year's Eve" in 1999. But, he adds, Y2K "is not like a storm or a random failure. We know this one is coming...
...millennial storm clouds? Mainly because the Year 2000 bug is what Paul Saffo at the Institute for the Future calls a "low-probability, high-consequence event." Says Saffo: "There is great danger in our cross-dependencies with computers, but there are also lots of humans in the loop making judgments." In the end, says Saffo,"the most likely scenario by far is that we'll muddle through...
...diplomatic storm raised by the incident might not be of primary concern to Lukashenko. TIME correspondent Yuri Zarakovich reports that the authoritarian president has restored a Soviet-style command economy, and last April responded to a fall in the Belarus ruble by firing and jailing dozens of officials. With Lukashenko citing Hitler's stewardship of Germany as a role model for his presidency, it's fair to assume that diplomatic protocol is not his priority...
...parts that have been added include three Olympians--two of them gold-medal winners--one Canadian National Team member and a pair of rookies that took the ECAC by storm this season. Despite missing some of those parts this year, Harvard (14-16, 6-14 ECAC, 2-6 Ivy) established itself as a team on the brink of excellence in the world of women's college ice hockey...
Stauffer's absence would no doubt be a tremendous distraction at best, an enormous loss at worst. And early in the season, it appeared that Harvard would indeed have to weather the storm of a lackluster season while it waited for its superstar to return...