Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lawyer, is hoping Executive privilege will protect him from answering Starr's questions. Lewinsky's first lawyer, Francis Carter, is claiming attorney-client privilege. Ginsburg is arguing that Starr should be forced to honor an earlier immunity deal with Lewinsky. And Clinton lawyer David Kendall wants Johnson to plug grand jury leaks he says are coming from Starr. During Watergate, John Sirica used the same judicial perch to prod along the investigation of President Nixon. Court watchers familiar with Johnson's pro-government tilt wonder which way it will lead her: to favor the special prosecutor who formally represents...
...supercurtly factual" permeated the magazine. "There Are 00 Trees in Russia," ran the title of a famous 1964 piece in Harper's magazine on TIME's obsessive fact-gathering and -checking systems, implying that the magazine had a sinister itch to make reality conform, through the use of plug-in facts, to the editors' preconceptions. Fair enough on occasion, but a little captious overall, in light of the magazine's scrupulous and expensive attention to accuracy...
Instead of Lamont's "Laptop Loge," students at Langdell can plug their portable PC into power and data jacks in cozy group study rooms or areas of the reading room. The set-up makes Langdell not only a welcoming old-school study space, but also a convenient work station...
JAKARTA: Indonesia?s President Suharto has Washington over a barrel -- and he knows it. ?We can?t afford to simply pull the plug on him," says TIME correspondent Bruce Van Voorst, "because if Indonesia fails, the ripple effect throughout Asia, and beyond, would hurt...
Insiders say Grune played a role in ousting Schadt, his handpicked successor, and then dismantled much of what Schadt had set in motion. Two weeks after Grune returned, the company pulled the plug on a costly Internet search engine called LookSmart. "Over the last few months Grune has basically disowned everything his predecessor did," says Dennis McAlpine, an analyst with Josephthal & Co. Digest says it is just returning to basics. "In the last few years we drastically reduced our testing," says Thomas Gardner, vice president of U.S. marketing. "Our general philosophy was to focus on new initiatives...