Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Surgery and drugs are equally effective in the immediate aftermath of a HEART ATTACK. Researchers compared an operation that mechanically opens clogged arteries with a medication that dissolves the clots that plug up those same arteries. For both procedures the death rate hovered around...
...privileged. Who else can afford the increasingly high tuition of private schools? In many urban areas, school boards do not have the necessary resources to realize the benefits of a Republican empowerment plan. They, too, misread the charts and vital signs on education. If Republicans pull the plug on failing public schools, they must offer a successful alternative. If not, a further segregation between the elite and the poor will ensue. Poor school districts have a laundry list of needs, like money, energetic teachers, active parents and wise administrators...
...same time, backing up your data is a cinch. The Pilot comes with a built-in docking station for use with your PC; plug it in, press a button, and the so-called "HotSync" process begins. With one touch, you can synchronize data between your desktop's time management software and your Pilot. U.S. Robotics also includes a functional organizer program with the Pilot; you can buy add-on programs that let your Pilot talk to other apps for a nominal fee. Dozens of freeware, shareware and commercial applications for the Pilot are also available on the Internet...
...reason that only 700,000 out of nearly 5 million U.S. sufferers seek treatment. In repairing a serious groin hernia, surgeons generally stitch in a synthetic screen to cover a tear in the abdominal wall from which a portion of the intestine may protrude. Now, however, they can simply plug the opening with a cone-shaped mesh device. Plugging rather than patching the hole causes less strain on the surrounding tissue and reduces the extent of both surgery and recovery time...
...this latest get-rich-on-the-Internet scheme as there are firms that want to cash in on it. Companies like Zenith and Curtis Mathes are building new TVs that come out of the packing crate Net ready; others, like ViewCall America, are designing set-top boxes that plug into ordinary TVs and make them Web capable. Sony and Philips, for example, are licensing set-top technology from WebTV Networks, a company partly financed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Sega and Nintendo, meanwhile, are adding Internet capability to their video-game machines, and this fall Apple is expected...