Word: younger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...younger Morris apparently created the virus as an experiment, intending that it would slowly copy itself across Arpanet, resting harmlessly in thousands of computers. But a tiny mistake in the programming reportedly caused the virus to replicate much more rapidly than planned. Otherwise, Morris' program was an impressive piece of work. It flew around Arpanet and Milnet at nearly the speed of light, disguised as a piece of ordinary electronic mail. Once inside a computer, it released a small army of surreptitious subprograms. One instructed the computer to make hundreds of copies of the original program. Another searched...
Youth was a theme of the evening, from the pop music that drowned out television coverage to the hordes of college students who packed the ballroom. State Sen. David Locke (R-Wellesley), speaking just after Bush's victory, addressed his remarks to the younger partyers, saying "You are the future of the Republican party...
George Bush says that he chose Quayle because he was a younger image of himself. He is right. Bush may have more experience and more titles that his running mate, but his impact has been obscure when it has not been dangerous...
Morris got much of his experience in computersat Bell Labs, where his father worked beforejoining the National Security Agency as aspecialist in computer security. While at Bell,colleagues say, he met Dennis Ritchie, one of theoriginal developers of the UNIX system. Harvardprogrammers learned of the younger Morris throughRitchie who told Harvard contacts to watch for thefreshman...
...history is any gauge, this could turn out to be one of the most important choices of the waning years of this century, despite the parlous state of the campaign. Never before have voters 40 and younger seen a ballot without the name of the incumbent President. Elections like 1988 that are not automatic referendums on the past presidential term tend to be political watersheds. The choice of John Kennedy in 1960 ushered in a brief but turbulent Democratic revival marked by domestic idealism, the triumph of the civil rights movement and then the agony of Viet Nam. Richard Nixon...