Word: weres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A few roommates who owned IBM computers were breathing a little easier last week after having uneasily anticipated the "Columbus Day Computer Virus" earlier this month. Hackers trembled at the prospect of a terminal illness which would wreak destruction upon term papers, lab data and anything else within the grasp...
Speaking of indigestion, the Harvard Dining Services (HDS) was playing the chameleon last week. After an especially unpalatable sequence of meals, a student mutiny hung in the air. But suddenly HDS scored a victory in the experimental cuisine department, and the masses were appeased.
They were called "vegetarian hamburgers," and admittedly, they didn't appear too appetizing. Tofu and sprouts don't a patty make, skeptics cried. But surprisingly, the overwhelming verdict was kudos to HDS for a fine meal. Even HDS themselves were caught off guard--the patties were gone in Dunster and...
It's not just newspapers whose lives were made livelier by the presence of jittery activity on both coasts. Television too had a lot to talk about, and so did ordinary people with nothing else to do.
The way Americans respond to disasters and potential disasters is a subject worth dwelling upon. The permanent damage of the stock market's bounciness seems negligible at this point. And while dozens of people were killed in the San Francisco earthquake, and tens of thousands were left homeless, hundreds of...