Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...products mainly, Mead Johnson's first concern was to maintain the good will of doctors who prescribe most of its products. It wisely started advertising Metrecal in the American Medical Association Journal, and even though it subsequently broadened out into general magazines, it ended each ad with a plug to see "your physician" about weight problems. This gave Metrecal the respectability that most slimming concoctions lack, sent sales soaring. And it works...
...probes deeper. Within two weeks, each student's answer to each question is compiled and analyzed. Result: a kind of cardiogram of teaching within every subject. For example, if a question involving multiplication with zeros is widely flunked, arithmetic teachers have a specific hole to plug...
Bells Are Ringing. A mediocre musical with a silly book is worth seeing only for the wonderfully talented Judy Holliday as the switchboard operator who hopes to plug in on a receptive party...
...traces of organic matter that escape the catalyst are mopped up by a bed of activated carbon, and finally an electrostatic precipitator removes the last aerosols (dust or smoke particles) from the sub's fresh, clean world. In case of an atmosphere-fouling emergency, the crew can plug gas masks into a piped air supply...
Bells Are Ringing. A mediocre musical with a silly book is worth seeing only for the wonderfully talented Judy Holliday as the switchboard operator who hates her lonely private line, hopes to plug in on a receptive party...