Word: piped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hopeful? Perhaps. But it's no pipe dream. Technology, whose image has suffered under a century's worth of dictators, Orwellian novels and a long cold war, is becoming a key to the revitalization of U.S. politics. The 1990s are witnessing technology's re-emergence in the healthier role foreseen by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, as an enabler and propagator of democracy...
...Bell South, which knows all about wires, electronic switches and things in the ground. ``This race is being driven by packaging, content, entertainment. The system has to be customer-friendly and fun to use. If you want to play this game, you have to send something entertaining down the pipe.'' That is one notion, at least, on which all of today's aspiring lords of the electronic lanes would surely agree...
...crypto-anarchists grab some Jolt from the wet bar and troop out, so now it's just me, Mom and Dad in the skybox. Dad points at the field with the stem of his pipe. ``Those 27 folks down there,'' he says. ``They didn't get any help from you, did they...
...devotes 30 seconds or so to lighting his pipe. Down on the field, the two-minute warning sounds. Dad puffs out a cloud of smoke and says, ``He seemed like an honest sloth...
...Americans holding jobs tied to exports to Mexico. In the past six weeks, U.S. manufacturers have already sharply pared their forecasts for Mexican business; Ford chairman Alex Trotman conceded last week that his company's plans to double exports to Mexico in 1995 were now just ``a pipe dream.'' Instead, the industry expects total Mexican sales to fall by one-third from last year's total of 600,000 vehicles...