Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students were impatient again, and joked about "just pulling every plug" they could find, but Horowitz didn't laugh. He thought of how expensive replacing a delicate exposed membrane on the counter would be. It might cost thousands of dollars, money he and his grant did not have. He has never broken anything more expensive than a large Bell jar, but knows that he has often been more lucky than careful...
...great surprise. Sawhill, 38, who took over FEA last May, pushed for stronger energy conservation measures than the Administration was willing to adopt; Morton tends to favor increasing U.S. energy production as an alternative way of reducing dependence on high-priced imported oil. Sawhill often bypassed bureaucratic channels to plug his programs directly in the White House and on Capitol Hill...
...questions, she wondered if Ford would be willing to turn over to the subcommittee all the taped recordings of conversations between himself and Nixon. Ford did not answer directly, although exactly what bearing such tapes would have on the issue of the pardon was unclear. Nixon pulled the plug on his recording system in mid-July 1973 while he was still determined to tough it out in office. Spiro Agnew was then Vice President, and Ford was the House minority leader...
Prices are set at the ministers' conferences and then flatly announced. The only opportunity that the companies have to "negotiate" comes later, when their executives meet with officials of the individual oil-possessing nations. If a company refuses to pay the price demanded, the OPEC member could plug the supply...
Sonya Hamlin. Muckrakers Woodward and Bernstein discuss Watergate and plug their book. ch. 4, 9 a.m. 1 hour...