Word: plugging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ambassador Bosworth dismisses the possibility, arguing that Filipinos, unlike Iranians, support "change through elections." Also, there is no mass movement in the Philippines that parallels Iran's Fundamentalist Muslim wave. Marcos, analysts say, has only one thing in common with the Shah: a fear that Washington may pull the plug on an old friend. The Reagan Administration has thus far held firm to its strategy of coaxing reforms from Marcos by rewarding steps toward moderation. Given the mounting resistance both on Capitol Hill and in the streets of Manila, however, that course, like the Marcos regime, may come under increasing...
...morning routine, the toasted slice bread, has met with more abuse that Caspar Weinberger at a Harvard Forum. Innocent slices of ordinary commercial bread are slowly baking drier than the University plans to make this campus. And all by a gleaming chrome technological fiasco with an industrial-size plug that looks like it was salvaged from one of the early electric chairs...
...deep. He had been thwarted after the Marines and the U.S. embassy were bombed in Lebanon and following the hijacking of the TWA plane. He held only a thin hope that things would turn out differently this time. Before he left the Oval Office for another flying tour to plug tax reform, he ordered National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane to use every intelligence source available to track the ship hijackers. Then he strode to his waiting helicopter...
...large white building is marked only by a tiny skull-and-crossbones label on the door. A few yards outside the site one afternoon in September, four men and a woman in boots and rubbery white suits used a huge tread-mounted pump to dig out a 10-ft. plug of earth for testing by the EPA. Their gas masks hung nearby, just above the spot where a dark little stream flows from the toxic site under the fence and away into the forest. For now, the locals who are worried are waiting. They await the results of more soil...
...Angeles police, eyeing their roster of unsolved crimes--4,350 murders, 2,500 rapes, 4,000 robberies and 20,000 burglaries--cannot wait to plug these cases into the state's new system. Other California lawmen share their enthusiasm. "There are a lot of people walking the streets out there who think they're home free," says Orange County Lieut. Richard Olson. "Once we get these computer systems working together, they're going to be in for a surprise...