Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pages; $29.95), the first of four volumes of Eliot's correspondence, edited by his second wife Valerie. Presses on both sides of the Atlantic are churning out new issues of Eliot's writing. The British Council has mounted an exhibition illustrating Eliot's life and work that will eventually travel to 70 countries. The U.S. observances will include a memorial lecture at the Library of Congress and a gathering of Eliot scholars + and critics at Washington University in St. Louis. There will even be a conference in Japan...
Since viruses can travel from one place to another as fast as a phone call, a single strain can quickly turn up in computers hundreds of miles apart. The infection that struck Froma Joselow hit more than 100 other disks at the Journal-Bulletin as well as an estimated 100,000 IBM PC disks across the U.S. -- including some 10,000 at George Washington University alone. Another virus, called SCORES for the name of the bogus computer file it creates, first appeared in Apple Macintosh computers owned by Dallas-based EDS, the giant computer-services organization. But it spread rapidly...
...empty hotel rooms result in part from fears of terrorism. A more important cause, though, is that Seoul's organizers over-estimated the need for accommodations for dignitaries and the media. Consequently, many would-be spectators at the Games were turned away by travel agents months ago because at that time there simply were not sufficient rooms available for booking. Strangely, the same problem, which has enraged South Korean hoteliers, merchants and restaurateurs, was encountered during the Winter Olympics in Calgary, but the lesson evidently went unlearned...
...maker took a wrong turn in its evolution of the PC when the company introduced its new line of Personal System/2 computers in April 1987. For the more powerful machines in the PS/2 series, the company drastically revamped the wiring, known as a bus, through which bits of data travel to various parts of the computer. The new bus, which IBM calls the Micro Channel, enables a computer user to perform such functions as writing and printing simultaneously instead of having to perform each task in succession...
Today, the Sox are four-and-a-half games in front of the Yanks and travel to the Bronx tonight for a three-game series at Yankee Stadium. A sweep for the Yankees would make the race a virtual tie. The Yankees would be only one game down in the loss column, and with a week left...