Word: system
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Coetzee develops brilliantly the white characters in the novel, there is something disturbing about the one dimensionality of all of the black characters. Petrus in particular never becomes anything more than a stereotype of the newly empowered yet still angry black man, and the seeming shallowness of his value system is chilling. Yet perhaps Coetzee keeps Petrus at a distance to make us realize that despite Lucy and David's liberal attitudes to the new South Africa, the damage done by years of oppression will not just disappear. And they will not be spared the revenge...
...forwards facilitated the improvement, redoubling its efforts to help the blueliners. In its best execution of the Mazzoleni system to date, they pressured the puck forcing quick decisions, and ultimately turnovers...
...keycard entry system refused to let them into their dormitories on the basis that they had graduated 96 years earlier. This problem was fixed within hours, so most people never even heard of it," Lewis explains...
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), says his office has spent the last 18 months making sure the computer system that runs keycard access across the campus will function properly...
Should Cambridge lose power, for example, all locks will revert to the locked position. The system will then run for a time on batteries, but it can't function on back-up power indefinitely...