Word: blackouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bonn Bureau Chief Bruce Van Voorst reports that German officials notified CompuServe's local office of their pornography investigation last month. But because CompuServe was not able to block access to the Usenet group for just it's 220,000 German subscribers, the company instituted its system-wide blackout. "The Munich prosecutor's office confirmed to me that CompuServe had possibly violated Bavarian law by providing access to the material," says Van Voorst. "Bavarian police visited the CompuServe's German office in Unterhaching, a Munich suburb, looking for evidence. Right now you have a lot of German Internet users...
...Fremont, watched his radar screen go blank. Then the backup failed. And his radio died. "This was the scariest thing I've ever seen," says Dimas, who with his colleagues was guiding 295 planes. A 20-year-old generator and its replacement had blown. During the 35-min. blackout, a United Airlines Boeing 757 nearly collided with an Alaska Airlines MD-80. Hundreds of flights were grounded...
...whose job it is to portray the truth and provide factual information are always confronted with moral dilemmas about to what extent they should allow themselves to get personally involved. Rascoff basically blasts James, Marx and Gilbert for not feeling any morals in the situation of the Agee family blackout...
Tomassoni's allusion to the blackout that annulled Game Four of the 1990 Stanley Cup Finals between the Bruins and the Edmonton Oilers seemed pretty appropriate, outside of considerations that the delay was only about three days shorter and irritated only about 50,000,000 fewer people...
Last night's blackout was "not that bad" compared to the power outage in Jordan last year, which occurred late at night during the exam period, said Head Tutor Rick M. Goodson...