Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only one real source of income, only one source of medical services and of food. There is only one real source of hope that someday Little Boy's family will be able to move out of squalor: the Federal Government. But the Federal Government is about to pull the plug...
MARLON BRANDO In the middle of shooting, plug is pulled on his latest film, an offer backers can refuse
Gingrich even used his historic joint appearance with Clinton in New Hampshire to get in a plug for his book. The President played along, joking that Senator Dole, the arbiter of morals, "hasn't given me permission to read that book yet." Now Gingrich is planning to stage a mock endorsement of it by Dole. After the New Hampshire event, Gingrich refused to close the door on his presidential aspirations. "I have to go through a Kabuki dance of personal ambition to get covered," said the most overexposed Speaker of all time, adding that he doesn't have to decide...
...example, can enter such phrases as "What's your name?" and "What's your phone number?" in a phrase book. When the software detects one of the targeted phrases printing across the terminal--say, in a chat room of a commercial online service--Net Nanny harrumphs and pulls the plug on the conversation by logging off the service. The program is effective in direct proportion to the monitor's ability to predict all the permutations of blue out there...
Scott decided late last week to pull the plug on his own service, at least for a while. What persuaded him was a call from a lawyer who pointed out that if someone committed suicide as a result of a FakeMail message, Scott could be held personally liable. "I never intended for people to hurt one another," he says...