Word: plugging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West should cease all forms of technology transfer to the Soviets, not just high tech. Comrade Gorbachev is a realistic man. I am sure that putting himself into Reagan's shoes, he's saying to himself, "What bloody fools these Americans have been in taking so long to plug this hole...
...third-sprightliest mile and a quarter (2:00 1/5) in 111 springs at Churchill Downs. Stephan's Odyssey finished second, more than five lengths behind, and the 6-to-5 favorite, Chief's Crown, was third. Far up the track, or at least it seemed so, came that old plug tradition, which may be losing ground even...
...instances of American support for uprisings against regimes inimical to the U.S., but they were sporadic and a number ended in failure. In the Nixon and Ford Administrations, Henry Kissinger worked through the Shah of Iran to support Kurdish separatists inside Iraq, but in 1975 the Shah pulled the plug on the Kurds in exchange for Iraqi concessions in a border dispute. When Kissinger sought to back the pro-Western factions in the Angolan civil war, he was thwarted by Congress, which was then in the throes of its post-Viet Nam withdrawal syndrome...
...Progressive?" is a series of past Salient issues, ranging from the early, newspaper-like layout to the present handsome tabloid format, exuding an aura of mature respectability. But if editorials like Raymond C. Bonker's "Reagan Education Cuts", which unsurprisingly supports the President's pulling of the plug on student aid, and, surprisingly, takes seriously Education Secretary William J. Bennett's insensitive remarks about stereos and vacations, are any indication of what lurks behind the enticing new covers, then theonly claim The Salient can make to membership in the mainstream is in the realm of graphics...
...present form, Rice's story has holes to plug and a narrative in need of streamlining, but it offers him a contemporary setting for his favorite theme: the pernicious lure of stardom, whether biblical, political or intellectual. His lyrics mix roguish wit (Bangkok contains the unlikely couplet "Tea, girls--warm and sweet--warm, sweet/ Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite") with the blistering bitterness of Evita. Andersson and Ulvaeus' score ransacks melodic styles from plainsong to Puccini to Gilbert and Sullivan to Richard Rodgers to Phil Spector to hip-hop, in a rock- symphonic synthesis ripe with...