Word: plugs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Message. Tire makers thus face an unenviable marketing dilemma: they dare not offend GM by quarreling openly with its claims, yet they know that those claims are likely to cost them sales. So far their solution has been to plug their new "sticky" tires heavily on TV and seek in other ways to get across the message that motorists still need snow tires to get around in the heaviest snows and on ice. Goodyear, for example, is passing around to editors a release, written like a news story that gingerly notes "there is no mention of ice traction...
...worthless paper that represent Gerry Ford's tenuous goodwill towards the Big Banks. In London, people are asking for a "table away from the windows." At Harvard, Henry Rosovsky is about to conduct the largest experiment in Ice Age studies ever. Everyone seems about ready to pull out the plug. Worst of all, this winter we can't shift all the blame on to the Arabs...
...protrude through the skin without promoting infection because they are coated with pyrolytic carbon,* which Mooney says forms an antibacterial seal.) The doctors connected two of the buttons to the arm's median and ulnar nerves with stainless-steel coils, and wired the third button to another carbon plug that serves as a ground. They then connected all buttons to wires in the prosthesis itself, linking them to sensors in the hand. To operate the arm and its hand properly, Hilton moves his remaining arm muscles selectively; their contractions produce electrical impulses that, transmitted to the prosthesis, open...
...means, said the judge, Karen is "not brain dead by present known medical criteria." Under common law, he went on, neither "the fact that the victim is on the threshold of death" nor "humanitarian motives" can justify taking life. Dismissing as mere "semantics" such questions as whether pulling the plug would be an act of commission or omission, he ruled that the move "would result in the taking of the life of Karen Quinlan when the law of the state indicates that ... would be a homicide...
Eugene Demchenko, a graduate student and Russian refugee, will lead Harvard's venomous defensive line. "Running into him is like running into a fire plug," said Wilson proudly before practice...