Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Locker probably wishes the Crimson had it so soft; with UNH and Clemson on its immediate horizon, Harvard must find a way to plug the holes in a defense which let in five goals in 120 minutes Wednesday against UConn...
Owners pull the plug on this season -- and the World Series...
...rationale for pulling the plug, the signatories of the memo postulated, was nothing less than "to protect the integrity of the Championship Season." Such logic had last been employed during the Vietnam War. In order to save the village that is baseball, the owners as much as said, they had to get out the napalm. Donald Fehr, head of the Players Association, expressed no surprise. Referring, perhaps unwittingly, to the intractability of both sides in the week before the cancellation, Fehr said, "There might as well have been wooden dolls at the bargaining table...
...online services grow? Given the state of technology today, there are limits. For one, only homes with computers and modems can plug in. And since sending photos and movies over phone lines is still relatively time consuming, the market is pretty much restricted to users who like to read and write. Yet the online services are not standing still. CompuServe has begun supplementing its offerings with CD-ROMS, combining the interactivity of a live, online connection with all the sound and animation that can be squeezed onto a CD. Prodigy plans to deliver its service to 200,000 cable...
...slower pace. The legislation, S. 1822, would have allowed major players in the telecom and cable business to compete in each other's territories, and would have sped up the development of the i-highway. But Senator Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) was forced to pull the plug after Republican Robert Dole of Kansas broke a tenuous congressional consensus and came out against the bill. The legislation had significant goodies for consumers, says TIME Washington Correspondent Suneel Rattan. "They've tried deregulation in the U.K. and they've had lower prices and better and more kinds of services," says Rattan...