Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dartmouth, last year's title winner, or Harvard, which finished third, can plug critical holes in their defenses, they could give the Tigers a run, especially if Princeton's quarterback problem doesn't solve itself...
...Dartmouth, last year's title winner, or Harvard, which finished third, can plug critical holes in their defenses, they could give the Tigers a run, especially if Princeton's quarterback problem doesn't solve itself...
...corporate CEOs as the annual ritual of subjecting their compensation to outside scrutiny. Disclosures of king-size pay packages and royal perks regularly rouse public resentment and shareholder revolts, not to mention congressional calls for reform. Unable to cap the criticism, the bosses are moving quietly but aggressively to plug the flow of information. In their cross hairs are the compensation consultants who prepare the data under contract with big corporations. Led by the Business Roundtable, the captains of industry have issued veiled threats to consultants who share information with journalists, financial analysts and regulatory authorities. The message: Stop cooperating...
These passages are the high points of Shampoo Planet, the moments when Coupland is at his wittiest and cruellest. This is the spirit of the "thought bombs" splattered in the margins of Generation X. ("Pull-the-Plug, Slice-The Pie: a fantasy in which an offspring mentally tallies up the net worth of his parents...
...mission of love" at a "white Christian revival." With his message goes a commercial tie-in. Besides the usual Klan caps and T shirts and stickers, these rallies offer pricey Klan kitsch, like a ceramic statuette of a hooded Klansman whose eyes glow an eerie red when you plug it into an electrical outlet ($25 at a rally or $20 for the mail-order version...