Word: plugging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computers, part of a family known as Personal System/2, range in price from $2,065 for the desktop Model 30 to $13,300 for the fully equipped Model 80. All are packed with advanced, IBM-designed technology, from the custom- made chips that replace plug-in cards to an optional laser disk that can hold 800,000 pages of text. But the basic components -- the microprocessors, floppy disks and operating system -- are made of readily available, off-the- shelf parts, which should make it relatively easy for other firms to legally reproduce the new machines...
...Billy Melvin, executive director of the National Association of Evangelicals, argues that his movement -- media portrayals to the contrary -- consists not of star preachers but of tens of thousands of churches across the country that "plug in, day in and day out." Perhaps last week's theatrics provide a useful reminder that the heart of Evangelicalism can never be found on the artificial "Main Street USA" of a theme park but only on the many real Main Streets, however simple and unglamorous, that traverse America...
...perpetrators and put an end to their nefarious plot. That is the way that Robert Ludlum or Jack Higgins would wrap up such a story, and Walker Percy scrupulously delivers all the promises his plot provides. But that is not all. For while More is trying to pull the plug on the doctored water, he must also ponder a vexing question. What is wrong, after all, with a simple process, akin to fluoridation, that makes people happier than in their natural state and that dramatically reduces crime and social pathologies? Are Dr. More's spaced-out patients better now than...
...fast -- four times as quick as the original. It is loud -- with stereo sound. It is expandable -- with six plug-in slots for peripheral devices. And for the first time on a Macintosh screen, it has color selected from a palette of 16 million hues and displayed on a 13-inch monitor. This week Apple Computer unveiled its Mac II, a spiffy unit priced at $3,899 (monitor not included). Yet the Mac II is most notable for a departure from Apple's previous products: with the proper accessories, it can run the huge library of software written...
...Minister of Defense and the patriarch of a poor but prestigious family. Having recently had a heart attack, Sir Robert is more dead than alive, surviving only with the aid of various life-support machines. Lady Charles has decided to put him out of his misery and pull the plug--much to the pleasure of heir apparent Hugo and his twin sister, Annabel. Planning ahead, the family has placed him in a coffin right in the middle of the Charles estate drawing room. The youngest son Nigel arrives from Oxford as does the dim-witted nanny Kitty, and the "switching...