Word: disconnect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...modern facility, and the Murr Center doesn't meet everybody's needs," Rosenthal says. "There probably is a disconnect between promotion [of fitness activities] and physical resources...
...have learned over the years, the credibility that can be afforded by popular elections is far from guaranteed. The low voter turnout that has plagued previous council elections is indicative of the disconnect between the candidates and the student body. It signifies a lack of confidence in council leadership and a dangerous apathy toward the role student government occupies within the College community. At best, popular elections have only brought the council one step closer to a goal that still remains beneath the horizon...
...EgyptAir Flight 990 is cruising uneventfully at 33,000 ft. on its normal heading from New York City northeast across the Atlantic toward Cairo. At that moment, two distinct clicks of a button on the control yoke disconnect the autopilot guiding the plane. Eight seconds later, the control yoke is pushed forward, tipping the tail up, pitching the nose down, and the aircraft tilts into a precipitous but controlled dive. Fourteen seconds later, the aircraft reaches 90% of the speed of sound and zero gravity--weightlessness--as it plummets through the night...
...little mollified that I can't have one yet--is that they're more vulnerable to hacker attacks than regular set-ups. You see, one of the strengths of surfing via cable is that you're online 24 hours a day and don't have to disconnect every time you want to order Chinese food. But that can also be a weakness, because your IP address (the ZIP code of the Internet) doesn't change. Dial-up users like me who are still crawling along at 56K get moved to a different IP address every time...
...whether they?ll try to fight on against the Australians, because that would require the support of at least elements of the Indonesian government." A rising nationalist backlash in Indonesia over the East Timor debacle won?t help the prospects for peace in East Timor. And the disconnect between the statements issued by Cohen and Wiranto after Thursday?s meeting could spell trouble...