Word: plug
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...penalty for making trades in CIGNA stock based on intelligence it had garnered from company insiders. Last year R. Foster Winans, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for trading in stocks that he had intended to plug in his column for the paper, and Paul Thayer, former chairman of LTV, received a four-year term for obstructing a Government investigation into his role in an insider stock- trading scheme...
...Afghanistan and Angola with U.S.-made Stinger missiles, disturbed civil libertarians. The firing was based partly on Pillsbury's answers to questions on a polygraph test. The case has also been referred to the Justice Department, apparently as a stern message about the Reagan Administration's resolve to plug leaks. Pillsbury's defenders suggest that he spoke out to influence policy, not jeopardize national security. Says Morton Halperin, legislative director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington office: "Leaking for policy reasons is an established Washington custom...
These blows left nuclear power moribund, like a patient who needs a respirator in order to survive. Now many fear that the accident at Chernobyl could prove to be the event that pulls the plug. "We're in trouble," conceded Carl Walske, the president of the Bethesda, Md.-based Atomic Industrial Forum, the lobbying group that speaks for the industry. "Before the accident, we could visualize the resumption of orders within about five years. We are still hoping that this will occur, but we expect that there will be some negative effect from a setback like this. If the calls...
...falls of Ferdinand Marcos and "Baby Doc" Duvalier have inspired a flurry of agitation with the simple theme, Let's do the same elsewhere, everywhere. The hit-wish list is breathtakingly long, including South Korea, Indonesia, Pakistan and many others. Just pull the plug of U.S. support for all these nasty dictators, so goes the argument, and democracy will flourish...
...Year countdown begins with the dropping of a giant apple. First lighted on Nov. 6, 1928, to report Herbert Hoover's presidential election, the zipper paraded the Hindenburg explosion, the end of World War II and other newsworthy events until its operator, the New York Times,pulled the plug in 1962. Resurrected in 1965 by Life and other sponsors, it flickered until 1977. Last week's comeback is a $1 million promotional effort by Newsday, a Long Island newspaper intent on invading the city...