Word: blackout
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...during the spring storm season. Often he would stay up nights watching the horizon as twisters cut deadly swaths nearby. Twice, he says, they touched down on his property, tearing up fences and farm equipment, though luckily missing his house. One night, while waiting up in a storm-induced blackout, he wondered whether there was a better way to warn people that a twister was forming: "I knew that the one thing that always worked in the disasters was the phone lines, because they are buried. So I invented a system that would provide storm warnings to rural areas where...
...press plane for a little postgame chatter. Reason: reporters had barred him, and his "off the record" sessions, from their part of the plane. It was their response to the campaign's decision to cancel press conferences for the last seven weeks of the campaign. For most pols, a blackout would be reason to haul out the peanuts and Cracker Jack, but for the slap-and-tickle candidate, this was punishment. Bush likes to gambol and gibe, because that's what baseball is too. Which is why his off-the-record chats tell you more about Bush in minutes than...
...opportunity to get back into the fold," says Sheen. It took eight script drafts to introduce deputy mayor Charlie Crawford, a party boy we first see waking up in bed with a flight attendant, late for a press conference. (In an early scenario, there was a blackout, and when the lights came back on, Sheen was in Fox's place.) The result is a one-joke character, and a predictable one at that. (How predictable? The flight attendant is Swedish...
...sewer caused an explosion at the corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Streets yesterday afternoon, blowing a manhole cover off and sending gaseous fumes into nearby buildings. The explosion forced the evacuation of the Harvard Band room and a nearby restaurant and raised fears of a Square-wide power blackout...
This message of empowerment carried through into the second component of "Unsilence the Violence"--a two-hour performance of poetry and art, featuring members of Harvard's Spoken Word Society and the BlackOut Boston Collective, a Boston performance group...