Word: plugging
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...money to create a center to build upon the work of former Graham professor of gender studies Carol Gilligan. But when GSE administrators could not find another gender studies expert willing to fill the center’s endowed chair after Gilligan’s departure, Fonda pulled the plug on the funding...
Yugo Nakamura knows. Nakamura, 32, is a Tokyo Web designer, and the hammer he's using to smash the Web is a program called Flash: a simple, free browser plug-in that adds sound and movement to websites. "Since Flash appeared on the scene," says Nakamura, "the rules as to what a Web page should be no longer apply...
...long hours of study, laughter sends endorphins to your brain, allowing you to fight through the stress of study and plug on a little longer. Rarely will you fall into laughing spurts alone at your desk. But with a study group, in the few relaxed minutes you get to spend each hour, you have someone to ask whether or not your Dickey-Fuller should be augmented...
...attempted to organize a Kurdish rebellion against Saddam, but in the end CIA officers fled their base in northern Iraq, abandoning their Kurdish agents to Iraqi police, who rounded up and executed hundreds. The Clinton Administration, fearing the operation would end in disaster, had pulled the plug...
...agency pulls the plug on efforts to mobilize Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq, convinced that Saddam Hussein is on to the operation...