DanMcGrathInside Baseball Chicagoans will always hate the Yankees ... except for this one. Nov 13, 2009
Cueing up the final scene from the movie Fail Safe and watching New York get nuked to smithereens always made him feel better, he said. White Sox fans with slightly longer memories could relate. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- MLB)
Poll split on need, method for new stimulus Oct 22, 2009
"More stimulus isn't needed? What do you propose, setting on our hands while small businesses go under? Something needs to be done to get small busineses rehiring so consumers start spending again! People are still in the 'fail safe' mode. A tax credit for small businesses that hire would be exactly what is needed right now.". Scott Bradley disagrees: "I don't agree with a tax credit for companies that 'create' new jobs. Would positions that were eliminated in previous cuts, but rehired consist... (San Jose Business Journal, CA)
Rezoning gets thumbs up Oct 7, 2009
Attorney Mark Vaughan, representing Equity Office, said new tenants would be required to pay $1 per square foot of their total space and is a fail safe provision to protect the town and help fund traffic improvements, such as additional traffic lights. If it is a 70,000 square foot building, $70,000 needs to be given to the town, said Vaughan. (Burlington Union, MA)
Will the Manhattan Project Always Exist? by Sam Kean, 3 Quarks Daily Oct 1, 2009
It is quite likely that the importance of nuclear technologies will grow in both practical significance (small scale, fail safe pebble bed reactors, perhaps Thorium liquid salt reactors), and political consequence. Since 1945, the possession of nuclear weapons has been the single largest indicator of a country's political and military power on the world stage. (Harper's Magazine)
Wellesley High joins virtual learning community Sep 25, 2009
Since taking classes online is relatively new, there is no fail safe to keep students from cheating, Brown said. Teachers do try to make tests and projects difficult to cheat in, he said, by having them be based on readings versus being multiple choices. (Wellesley Townsman, MA)
4 tricks that may help you get a human on the phone Sep 20, 2009
But zero isnt fail safe. Dan Kings K2 Technologies sets up automated voice systems for businesses in Gillette, but it doesnt make him immune from what he calls voice mail hell. (Gillette News-Record, WY)
* Obama wants financial reform passed this year Sep 13, 2009
Our financial system will not be fail safe until it is safe for failure, he said. Obamas speech tomorrow at historic Federal Hall on Wall Street will come on the anniversary of the collapse of 158-year-old Lehman Brothers, which shook confidence in the US financial system and set off a global panic. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Tough Love For Israel? Sep 12, 2009
Do not even attempt to to accuse me of anti-semitism or any other fail safe knee jerk reaction to just criticism of Israel and it's campaign of terror. Which is wrapped in propaganda and media friendly fact skewing BS without fail. (CBS News)
White House wants regulatory reform this year Sep 12, 2009
"We cannot have a viable private sector financial system in which failure is not a possibility. Our financial system will not be fail safe until it is safe for failure," he said. Obama's speech on Monday at historic Federal Hall on Wall Street will come on the anniversary of the collapse of 158-year-old Lehman Brothers, which shook confidence in the US financial system and set off a global panic. (Channelnewsasia.com)
Click to read:S.C. Serial Killer Slain By Police in N.C. Jul 7, 2009
There is no fail safe way to try and judge people when you have so much evidence and key witnesses that create mind boggling variables and possibilities. Even though the judgment is rendered you have to allow the appeals to be filed. (CBS News)
Click to read:Computer Failure At Fault In D.C. Crash? Jun 24, 2009
In the end, I believe the "mechanical" portion of the rail system is adequate, but the computer monitoring, and "fail safe" technologies need to be updated. This one will last for years in court. (CBS News)
Bloggers Say Facebook Slow to Fix Security Holes Jun 24, 2009
"In addition, I'd recommend users visit their social networking pages without being logged in. It might surprise them what information can be seen by perfect strangers. At any rate, it is a good fail safe measure to make sure they haven't inadvertently made information public that they did not intend to," he said. FBHive had showed that breaches of personal data can have consequences by publishing the birth dates and other information of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as well as Internet... (SmallBusinessComputing)
Dom DeLuise, 75; zany actor hammed it up in dozens of roles May 6, 2009
Mr. DeLuise was appearing on Broadway in "Here's Love" in the early 1960s when Garry Moore saw him and hired him to play the magician "Dominick the Great" on "The Garry Moore Show." His appearances on the hit comedy-variety program brought offers from Hollywood, and Mr. DeLuise first came to the attention of movie goers in "Fail Safe," a drama starring Henry Fonda. He followed with a comedy, "The Glass Bottom Boat," starring Doris Day, and from then on he alternated between films and television. (Boston Globe)
The 50 best recipes ever Mar 5, 2009
I make these banana muffins about once a week: They are simple, quick and fail safe and you can add almost anything to it to vary the recipe. I've added apple and cinnamon, rasberry, blueberry, peach, nectarine, chocolate chips, etc Each just as delicious, I don't even bother with the icing. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
'Watchmen' Easter Eggs: Our Favorite Blink-And-You'll-Miss-'Em Moments Mar 3, 2009
"There's also 'The Road Warrior' that you can see, which was a really influential movie for me in the '80s. ... There's some porn, some real porn which is cool. There's a Marvin the Martian [cartoon], which is the one where he's trying to destroy the Earth which speaks to the annihilation of the planet that Ozy's having an issue with at that time. There's 'The Day the Earth Stood Still,' which is featured heavily in the graphic novel, and there's 'Fail Safe,' which is another Cold War-era epic."... (VHI.com -- Music News)
Movie: Cliff Robertson in The Pilot... Mar 1, 2009
Also note the appearance of Ed Binns, who had previously played the lead bomber pilot of Group Six in Fail Safe (1964). The Pilot features some great flying sequences, including a breathtaking, low-level excursion over Monument Valley where John Ford made many of his westerns. (Suite101.com)
Entertainment Feb 19, 2009
The official student newspaper of Villanova University since 1916. Advertising/Classifieds. (The Villanovan, PA)
Quarry water may refill Adelaide's drained Torrens Lake Feb 15, 2009
Wouldn't the mechanism be "Fail Safe" (normally closed, like an electrical circuit) it's bloody ridiculous. Posted by: Shaun of Littlehampton 4:46pm February 13, 2009. (NEWS.com.au)
