Word: plugging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...change of strategy was so sudden and striking that even veteran policymakers were taken aback. After stressing for months how important it was for the U.S. to stay competitive in high technology, the Bush Administration was getting ready to pull the plug on its two most widely publicized high-tech initiatives. According to reports circulating in Washington, the Administration was determined to cut not only the $10 million it had pledged for research into high-definition television, but all federal support -- including $100 million in 1991 -- for Sematech, the Reagan-era industrial consortium designed to catapult the U.S. into...
...where we are not trying to give anybody a hard time." By Friday, though, Bush realized he had badly underplayed a historic event and, in a speech in Texas, waxed more enthusiastic. "I was moved, as you all were, by the pictures," said Bush. He also got in a plug for his forthcoming meeting with Gorbachev on ships anchored off the coast of Malta: "The process of reform initiated by the East Europeans and supported by Mr. Gorbachev . . . offers us all much hope and deserves encouragement...
SPOIL SPORTS. The State and Treasury Departments have pulled the plug on ABC's plan to televise the 1991 Pan American Games in Cuba, contending the broadcasts would violate the U.S. ban on commerce with Fidel Castro's island. While Cuba could lose $9 million in fees from ABC, a bigger loser might be Atlanta. City officials fear a backlash against the U.S. could damage its bid to host the 1996 Olympics...
Weber said the NSF withdrew its support, about $10 million annually, when the parent company of the von Neumann computer manufacturer disbanded the subsidiary. Control Data Corporation decided to "pull the plug" on ETA System, maker of the supercomputer, the NSF director said. He did not elaborate...
...East dropped 24 of their first 36 games this spring, it seemed the epitaph for a talented but erratic team. Renewal began with a new manager (soft-spoken Cito Gaston) whose unflappable style helped inspire the midseason revival of brooding power hitter George Bell. The August acquisition of spark-plug centerfielder Mookie Wilson added on-the-field leadership. As Gaston, one of the two black managers in baseball, puts it, "If I wasn't sitting in the dugout, I'd buy a ticket to see Mookie play...