Word: plugged
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...high-toned popular fiction. No one ever got to say what was on their minds in those films, which often featured feverish and high-strung emoting by such live-wire nut jobs as Bette Davis or Joan Crawford who would haul a handgun out of her handbag and plug whoever was thwarting her hormonal needs. Here everyone suffers in hushed silence...
...Hellenikon, Kortizidis took action alone. He faced up against a team of local entrepreneurs, shutting down a sprawling go-cart business controlling swaths of sandy shoreline along Hellenikon. He then ordered a bulldozer to rip out the operation's fenced facade, and commanded a nightclub owner to pull the plug on a pay-beach venue exploiting another part of the Athens coastline, the Agios Kosmas beach. Within days of the notice, an incident occured in which two of Kortzidis' town hall officials claimed they were battered by the nightclub owner and his wife. The officials, the businessman and his wife...
Thank you for suggesting possible titles to continue the Harry Potter series [May 21]. They just confirmed my opinion that author J.K. Rowling is right to pull the plug after releasing this summer's book. Your selection of subjects--Paris Hilton, steroids, American Idol--demonstrate that the bogeymen here in the adult Muggle world are a lot more frightening, if not evil, than He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named could ever dream of being, and they would only ruin the magic, if you will, of future Harry Potter books...
...more than $250 a month - more than most local men - as the star employee of Siwa Womens' Native Artisanship Development Initiative. The company was the brainchild of Cairo entrepreneur Laila Neamatalla who, together with her brother, leading environmentalist Mounir Neamatalla, have adopted a unique approach in their effort to plug Siwa into the global economy - the heritage hotels and local industries they have built are based largely on the skills, materials and traditions of the Siwa community...
...hugely influential geneticist, and I applaud his inclusion in the list. But what on earth was running through your collective minds to lend false legitimacy to the pseudoscientific hack Michael Behe, not only by giving him responsibility for the Dawkins write-up but also by allowing him to plug his own unsupported ideas and latest book? It doesn't exactly do wonders for your perceived level of accuracy of reporting. The scientific community has so much better to offer. I'm disappointed and mildly disgusted. Lynne Batik, Aberdeen, Scotland...