Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spent on meetings and phone calls rather than thinking and planning. Bowles urged Clinton's schedulers to carve some undisturbed office time into his day. He made sure that the right people got to meetings and that they started and ended on time. And he worked assiduously to plug leaks, taking his yellow highlighter to anonymous quotes and confronting the suspects. "He was trying to enforce the rules of the game," says a White House aide. "You keep your mouth shut unless you're authorized to open it. The place became a lot tighter...
...buzz WENDY TAYLOR, PC Computing: "HP's Vectra is a solid machine with some of the best networking smarts available in a PC today. Plug it in, follow the instructions, and you've got your own small-office or home-office network--and you don't need a nerd...
...almost every American owns a TV--making the boob tube, at least theoretically, the ideal vehicle for bringing the Internet to a mass market. Now Palo Alto, California-based WebTV has teamed with Sony and Philips to roll out low-cost, Internet-TV browsing terminals that plug easily into television and phone lines. Then even the most byte-shy technophobe can surf the Net and enjoy the convenience of E-mail. ($329 to $349 [box] and $19.95 [monthly access]; WebTV and Sony or Philips...
...good news for the Crimson is that, after two weeks of relying on its bench to plug holes caused by injuries, the team is now back at full strength...
Most salient to the team's prospects may well be the contributions of its youngest members. Head Coach Jay Weiss's freshman recruits, ranked 14th in preseason evaluations, could have a key impact on the squad and plug some crucial holes in the lineup...