Word: plugged
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...York Senator Charles Schumer, looking forward to a series of hearings and resolutions. "We are going to continue this discussion ... and we believe the more [the war] is debated and discussed ... the less flexibility the President will have in maintaining his course." Why not just try to pull the plug? Maybe Schumer has read about...
...Clearing this sort of hurdle has become an art form in Northern Ireland, but the efforts are complicated by a deadline. The British Government has given the parties until March 26th to strike a deal. If it doesn't happen, they say they will pull the plug on the newly elected Northern Ireland Assembly and start looking at other arrangements for governing the region. Paisley thinks they're bluffing, in part because the deadline is being dictated by Tony Blair's desire to see a decade of effort on Northern Ireland rewarded with a settlement before his impending retirement. British...
...spoke ominously of rumors that China's government was planning a crackdown on stock speculation, including a possible tax on capital gains. Over the past 18 months, Chen's small portfolio had almost doubled in value as the Shanghai market shot straight up. So she decided to pull the plug, suddenly afraid it would all go sour. "I sold everything just before the holiday," she says, and was blithely unaware that the Shanghai stock index plunged 8.8% on Feb. 27, its biggest one-day drop in a decade...
...spoke ominously of rumors that China's government was planning a crackdown on stock speculation, including a possible tax on capital gains. Over the past 18 months, Chen's small portfolio had almost doubled in value as the Shanghai market shot straight up. So she decided to pull the plug, suddenly afraid it would all go wrong. "I sold everything just before the holiday," she says, and was blithely unaware that the Shanghai stock index plunged 8.8% on Feb. 27, its biggest one-day drop in a decade...
...from students,” Stern said. “That is much more productive for the ultimate goal of achieving peace, rather than writing a one-sided book.” Perhaps anticipating the tension that would arise during the Q-and-A, Dershowitz prefaced it with a plug for an upcoming debate with Johnson Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker about two traditional Jewish foods, latkes and hamentashen. “I am going to devastate the latke,” Dershowitz quipped. —Staff writer Malcom A. Glenn can be reached at mglenn@fas.harvard.edu...