Word: plugging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since the struggle to plug leaks in Washington is certain to be a losing one, there was no great alarm in the capital when the President on March 11 signed a new National Security Decision Directive. It gave various department and agency heads the right to force lie-detector tests on employees suspected of passing classified information to reporters. The announcement was greeted with puzzlement, since many leaks come from these same officials when it suits their purpose. Last week, on closer scrutiny, the order took on a more ominous...
...grime on the disc's laminated surface. Because nothing touches the disc, there is no wear. Digital records lack the distortion customarily found on LPs in loud passages and near the end of a side, when the sound is unnaturally compressed. The new players are designed to plug into conventional component systems, and the discs will be compatible with any player on the market...
...There's as assumption that if the native people simply plug into American capitalism they'll be fine-American capitalism isn't fine." Allen Frazier, a member of the Round Valley Indian Reservation in California said Saturday. "We have to work in conjunction with our culture and heritage to maximize our chances for success...
Though GM Chairman Roger Smith claims that the Toyota venture represents only a "temporary" solution, there was another sign last week that Detroit is leaving the manufacture of small cars to someone else. American Motors Corp. indicated that it may soon pull the plug on its archaic Spirit and Concord models. That will leave AMC with only the four-wheel-drive Eagle and the hot-selling Alliance, which was developed and financed by its French partner, Renault...
...some to Home Box Office and Showtime (whose combined subscription base is now 15 million, up 50% from 1981), some to the burgeoning number of cable households (30 million strong, with 350,000 new homes each month), and doubtless some to video games, video discs and other plug-in software. Yet the raw number of network viewers has barely declined, because more Americans are spending more time watching television: the typical TV set is in use almost seven hours...