Word: plugging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Baton Rouge. Two thousand people gather on the floor of L.S.U. Assembly Center, where the Fighting Tigers play basketball. The scoreboard reads DOLE: 0 BUSH: 88. Bush's talent for tortured syntax and mixed cliches comes through when he says, "I'm disturbed when Congress pulls the plug out from under the contras." But he is having a good time -- as is the crowd -- and he dons a "Bushbackers '88" apron to serve platefuls of jambalaya to the faithful...
However, national campaign spokeswoman Dale Tate said Dole intended to remain a candidate. "We're not pulling the plug on the campaign," she said...
...America. "We say, 'Got a turntable at home? That doesn't record either.' " Despite its clear technical superiority and the fact that movies on disc often retail for 50% less than tape, laser still went for a rough ride in the marketplace. Both RCA and MCA pulled the plug on their separate videodisc ventures in the early '80s, which led consumers to the misconception that the technology had gone bust. Pioneer Electronics, which manufactures virtually all the laser players sold in the U.S., soldiered on alone, going into the software business as well, but discs remained mostly the playthings...
...candidate's daily schedules to reporters not by messenger but by facsimile machine, which can transmit a typewritten page over telephone lines in 30 seconds or less. The personal assistants of Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore and Missouri Democrat Richard Gephardt are never far from their laptop computers, which they plug into telephone jacks at least once a day to exchange missives with far-flung operatives or to read the latest word from their Washington offices. When a blizzard last month prevented Robert Dole from attending a town meeting in Alexandria, Minn., the Kansas Republican called the meeting hall from...
...Foley of Washington. The Democrats maintained that Howard Baker, the White House chief of staff, arrived at the meeting Thursday and under orders from Reagan retracted some concessions the Administration had made earlier. Baker denied that claim: "Anyone who tries to characterize it as the White House pulling the plug is completely and totally wrong." The Administration contended that the Democrats refused to nail down any particulars...