Word: toile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least that's what the Harvard baseball team is hoping. Although the stud pitchers--Columbia's Kurt Lundgren, Cornell's Greg Myers. Navy's Jim McMurtry--toil else-where in the Eastern League, no squad has a staff as deep, from top to bottom, as Alex Nahigian's Crimson. And with the revamped EIBL schedule calling for back-to-back, weekend double-headers, every team will have to unearth a fourth starter and third reliever every Sunday...
Computer-security experts readily Computer-security experts readily admit that they do not offer fail-safe protection. As they toil at erecting new electronic fences around computers, astute crooks are just as busy finding ways to break them down. Research into computer security, now going on at numerous companies and universities, has become almost as supersecret as nuclear-weapons development or germ-warfare studies. Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and at SRI International are studying a frightening flaw in the programming of many computer systems that could allow criminals who find it to get around standard security...
...evil people spend their lives working within the Washington system--lobbying, writing legislation, consulting, drafting regulations, and generally attending a lot of boozy receptions. At once victims of their environment and staunch defenders of the red tape that puts food on their tables, the journeyman laborers of government toil in virtual anonymity...
...take heart Liz, because your efforts and those of Harvard's 30 other student-managers really are appreciated--at least by those who toil in Dillon field house and 60 Boylston St. For example, Joe Restic, nead coach of the football team, said recently, "Managers play a very, very, important role in Harvard athletics. They are a vital part of our particular program...
...confessed Budget Director David Stockman, the worst week of toil he had ever experienced. An admitted workaholic, Stockman had averaged about five hours of sleep a night during the five days prior to the President's speech-a time, he said, "when things began to get interesting." Among other things, he had chaired a meeting of the Cabinet in Reagan's absence, a symbol of the President's intense trust in his judgment on economic matters. One congressional Democrat describes him as being "like Svengali, like Rasputin to the Tsar." But others are awed by his incisive...