tech surge

[Martin Kaminer]

Here in NYC we tend to associate the word with 'storm surge', which has
pejorative connotations indeed (one-year anniversary coming up, in the
manner of 9/11)


On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> Yesterday on the CBS evening news, I heard Scott Pelley say that
> Obama had called it a "tech surge".
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> Joel
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> At 10/22/2013 11:25 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >On Oct 22, 2013, at 11:04 PM, Neal Whitman wrote:
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> > > I heard the sudden deploying of IT people to fix the Obamacare websites
> > > referred to consistently as a "tech surge" this morning on NPR, at
> least
> > > 3 or 4 times. Clearly (to my mind)
> >
> >and to Jon Stewart's (or his writer's), on last night's Daily Show
> >
> >LH
> >
> > > modeled on the troop surge in Iraq a
> > > few years ago. Prior to this year, the few Google News hits I find
> refer
> > > to stock prices, or use "surge" as a verb.
> > >
> > > Neal
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