tech surge

[Laurence Horn]

On Oct 22, 2013, at 11:04 PM, Neal Whitman wrote:

> 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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