Word: preparedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some sites, of course, were better prepared than others. By bringing on enough servers to handle peak-load traffic, the best avoided "site busy" messages and snail-like downloads. They also kept puzzled shoppers from fleeing by providing an 800 number or offering real-time Instant Messaging chats with customer...
"The Person of the Century should be someone who held true to his beliefs and was prepared to fight for them." PAULA MOUNTAIN-AGAR York, England
9. "Like most of mankind he was ill prepared for the destiny and responsibility which had been thrust upon him. He did not want the responsibility; the destiny rested awkwardly on his shoulders."
Yet to borrow a famous phrase from Karl Marx, "All that is solid melts into air"--was melting already, as of 1911, and forming large and inconvenient puddles on the floor, quite insusceptible to the morally muscular moppings of outraged critics. Here one directs the reader to the foldout chart...
Millions of French households may pass the New Year with no electricity or heating, but not because of any computer bug. The killer storm that raged through Europe over the weekend, leaving at least 130 people dead and billions of dollars in damage, has also left up to 5 million...