Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...solar, will dominate world energy production by 2050. Japan's electronics giant Canon has formed a joint venture with Michigan's Energy Conversion Devices to commercialize solar technology. Enron, Germany's Siemens and scores of other companies, including aerospace firms, engineering giants and utilities, are also exploring opportunities to plug into the renewable-energy business. Is this collective corporate madness? Perhaps not. The world has changed a great deal since...
...challenging the admissibility of key evidence seized by police, this time from Simpson's Ford Bronco. And once again, Judge Lance Ito ruled in favor of the prosecution. The judge also continued his attack on the press, scheduling a November hearing to determine whether or not to pull the plug on television cameras in the courtroom...
...snowball by year's end, when prices on some videocams drop to $100. Predicts David Farber, one of the Net's founding fathers: "Every kid with a Mac and an Internet connection is going to buy [a camera] and plug it into his serial port." With results as yet undreamed...
Retiring majority leader George Mitchell reluctantly abandoned his Herculean efforts to craft a compromise health-care reform bill and pulled the plug on any such legislation for this year. "The insurance industry on the outside and a majority of Republicans on the inside proved to be too much to overcome," said Mitchell. Senate minority leader Bob Dole countered that "democracy in action" defeated what he claimed was a bad, costly and overly bureaucratic set of proposals. President Clinton vowed to revive the fight next year...
...Everything is plugged in--the fax machine, all the lights. If a student reached down now to pull the plug, he'd get electrocuted," Hustus said. "Every closet was definitely soaked...