Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...companies decided last week to put away their boxing gloves. IBM and Apple plan to join forces and share technology in a potentially powerful partnership that could reshape the computer industry. The culmination of weeks of cross-country negotiations, the collaboration could help plug large gaps in their product lines and position both companies for the future. Among the elements...
...million to complete it. The government refused to pay, and the company refused to make any more radars. Now, with the Weather Service logging a record year for tornadoes (1,033 so far this year), the program is still stalled in court. A decision on whether to pull the plug on Unisys is expected within weeks...
...outcome was merely a big stink: losses that approached $25 million by the end of 1990. Now Bic will officially pull the plug on its perfume line at / the stockholders' meeting later this month. Bad reviews were only part of the problem. Bic may have ultimately been undone by the simple but deadly logic of snob appeal -- namely, it is not luxury that makes things expensive, but expense that makes things luxurious...
Duany and Plater-Zyberk have devised a practical way to wield influence beyond the projects they can plan and design each year. They have drafted a Traditional Neighborhood Development ordinance that can plug right into the existing system -- and subvert it. The T.N.D. is a boilerplate document that codifies the nuts-and-bolts wisdom Duany and Plater-Zyberk have acquired, which cities, towns and counties can enact. "The T.N.D. thinks of things like corner stores the way other codes think of sewers," Duany explains. "Everybody simply knows you have to have them." More than 200 local planning departments and officials...
...hottest argument in energy circles focuses on the right mix of fuels and conservation methods to satisfy this proliferating need for plug-in power. The issue is not whether the U.S. has enough coal. Even if the nation chose to meet all its staggering demand with its most popular fuel for generating electricity, coal, its reserves would last many decades. The question is whether America wants to bear the costs and effects of burning all that coal or would prefer the costs and effects of splitting some atoms instead...