Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Joselow had been stricken by a pernicious virus. Not the kind that causes measles, mumps or the Shanghai flu, but a special strain of software virus, a small but deadly program that lurks in the darkest recesses of a computer waiting for an opportunity to spring to life. The computer virus that struck Joselow had been hiding in the memory of the newspaper's machine and had copied itself onto her data disk, scrambling its contents and turning the reporter's words and sentences into electronic confetti...
...works, are now becoming available to the 13 million handicapped Americans of working age. In the past, efforts to help the handicapped tended to be overambitious and prohibitively expensive. In one much publicized experiment, quadriplegics have "walked" with crutches or walkers using computer-stimulated electrical impulses to move their stricken legs. But even by the most optimistic estimates, it will be many years before such devices are widely available...
What Azenha and other foreign journalists who attended last week's Republican Convention painfully discovered was that finding a story they could break in New Orleans was about as likely as encountering a flood of the drought-stricken Mississippi River. Even when controversy arose over George Bush's running mate, Senator Dan Quayle, many reporters from abroad had trouble developing fresh leads on the story, lacking as they did the facilities and long-standing contacts of their American colleagues...
WASHINGTON--Both houses of Congress overwhelmingly approved some $6 billion in aid for drought-stricken farmers yesterday after scaling back provisions for special assistance to milk producers and ethanol fuel makers...
Basic provisions of the bill would provide payments to drought-stricken farmers equal to 65 percent of their lost earnings above 35 percent of anticipated harvest. They also would expand and streamline government feed programs for dairy and livestock producers...