Word: piped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seemed to lumber ponderously down the runway for years, but now cable television is definitely airborne. A quarter of the nation's 77.8 million TV homes are hooked up to one of the 4,600 local cable companies that pipe into living rooms everything from first-run movies, hard-sell religion and soft-core porn shows to kiddie programs and the proceedings of Congress live. Cable-systems owners, present or prospective, are as hot on Wall Street as genetic engineering firms, and advertisers are beginning to eye cable TV as a promising vehicle for commercials. Though at present...
...library and the ceremony were like Ford himself-low key, square corners, functional and direct. Ford presided, with his pipe and his smile at the ready, looking a dozen years younger than...
...Valentine's Day, 1975, Sir Pelham, 93, fell asleep in his chair, pipe half filled, writing materials beside him. So lived and died the character P.G. Wodehouse had labored to create: a perfect gentleman and a happy writer...
...because his tattered jogging outfit was so indecorous. Unlike some of his predecessors at Defense, he has none of the arrogance or aloofness that so often offends Congress. Says one Capitol Hill aide: "It's awfully nice not to have a Secretary of Defense who puffs on a pipe and talks down at you from an intellectual perch." A senior military official at the Pentagon agrees: "Weinberger is the first good politician we have had on the third floor for quite a while...
...keeps a computerized inventory of all street surfaces, curbs, gutters, sidewalks and stop lights. Water-main breaks and cracks in the pavement are rigorously recorded, as are the costs of repairing them. The city, for example, annually cleans out 26% of its sewers, and trouble-prone stretches of underground pipe are inspected by subterranean television cameras...