Word: plug
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Champion Spark Plug, Toledo, Ohio...
According to his book, Yao is an associate at a "major"--but un named--Wall Street law firm Curiously, two of the people who plug the book on the back cover are also associates at "Major Wall St. Law Firm." And I suspect that thousands of people who will buy Packaging are prospective associates at "Major Walk St. Law Firm. "Many of them probably didn't know (before they read Packaging) that they should not under any circumstances, "sprinkle" their applications with "typos, misspellings and grammatical errors." Nonetheless Yao wants them to join the legalistic lemmings...
...wealthiest people creates a fascinating dual economy and culture in the oldest state west of the Appalachians. Mercedes sedans park next to beat-up Chevy trucks; private helicopters swoop down on quiet farmland; expensive restaurants spring up next to Billy's Bar; and Joe Bob the trainer, a plug of Red Man in his cheek and a splash of mud on his boots, rubs elbows with Texas wildcatters and Arabian princes...
...computer screen the text of every federal court decision handed down in the past 30 years. The services are a godsend to researchers who regularly search through large numbers of documents for a few key words or phrases. A student doing a paper on juvenile delinquency, for example, can plug into a data bank and ask to see all the articles in which the words child and crime appear. He can then further narrow the search by calling up only those stories that contain the words murder or arson...
...fact the Defense Department had already set out to pre-emptively plug leaks. At the Pentagon's request, three news organizations-NBC, the Associated Press and Aviation Week & Space Technology, a widely respected industry magazine-held off stories about the military shuttle mission. NBC reported that it had grudgingly acceded to a personal plea from Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger...