Word: glitches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Proportional representation in the Cambridge sense of the phrase is a dying art--the Cambridge law, thanks to a glitch somewhere in the state processing system, was never officially published as a law and no recent statute exists which adequately lays down the rules. But Cambridge politicians adore it, even if they have to spend the week in an elementary school...
...Northeast Personal and Business Computer Show drew well over a hundred computer firms, exhibiting products that ranged from "space-war" games to "glitch detectors" (computer program troubleshooters), and from musical synthesizers to mobile robots...
...investigators confirmed that the plant's operators overrode the automatic safety systems in their attempts to correct the rapidly developing crisis that occurred when an electricity-generator turbine tripped, or shut itself down. Those actions, says the report, turned what should have been a relatively minor glitch into a potential disaster. Instead of letting the reactor's emergency core cooling system perform its safety functions, the operators paid "undue attention" to keeping the coolant from overfilling the reactor and refused to believe instruments indicating that the plant's fuel core was getting perilously...
...plant, situated on a stretch of muddy soil called Three Mile Island in an otherwise scenic bend in the river. The men in the control room had heard those sirens before. They went about their task of meeting what looked at first like just another "transient," a minor glitch somewhere in the complex system like so many they had dealt with in the past. Unit 2's huge turbine, which generates 880 megawatts of electricity, had "tripped," shut down automatically, as it should when the steam that turns it has somehow been cut off. The technicians assumed that the cause...
...special tensions and frustrations of presidential campaigning when he covered Dwight Eisenhower's drive for the White House in 1952. He recalls one occasion when an exhausted Ike roundly chewed out some of his aides on a Manhattan street after fumbling an important speech because of a glitch in a TelePrompTer machine. Having witnessed similar episodes in other campaigns-as correspondent, political editor and later assistant managing editor at LIFE, Ajemian confesses: "I admire politicians enormously. They are the best of the survivalists. They get battered and second-guessed and in the process develop this marvelous psychological armor...