Word: plugs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quiet, maybe a bit too quiet. America's economic problems seemed to be taking a summer vacation last week, as if to give the incoming Federal Reserve chairman, the new U.S. money czar, a few moments to plug in his computer terminal and sharpen his pencils before the first crisis. To a remarkable degree, everything was going Alan Greenspan's way, as the nominee prepared for the Herculean job of succeeding the retiring Paul Volcker. The Dow Jones industrial stock average zoomed to a new peak of 2572.07. The dollar, which had spent much of the past two years...
...also want to use the year to just plug some holes in my education," said Dietrich. "The additional education will be of value in my future work--it will show up in my stories and how I do them...
Even as many other Communist countries are experimenting with economic reforms of one kind or another, Cuba has chosen to move in precisely the opposite direction. Within the past year Fidel Castro has pulled the plug on the country's once-thriving system of free-market farmers' stands and a program that allowed Cubans to build, buy and sell private homes on the open market, two of the touches of capitalism that he has permitted to take root in 28 years of rule. TIME Correspondent Laura Lopez visited Cuba with an American delegation from Indianapolis, host city for this year...
...Harvard and Radcliffe" was disappointing, to say the least. After reading the April 18 article, I wondered if any member of The Crimson had attended the concert. The article was a publicity piece which should have run the day of the concert, not the day after. As a plug for the concert, it was sufficient; as a report, inadequate. Not only was the article replete with errors and inconsistencies, including the misspelling of several names, there was no reference to the celebratory events which took place in Sanders Theater on April...
...luck!" (James 2: 16) and "What of it?" (Philippians 1: 18). Replacements: "Go in peace" and "What difference does it make?" The 1970 rendition of Luke's nativity narrative says that "there was no room for them in the place where travelers lodged," which to some sounded like a plug for Travelodge motels. The revision adopts the familiar "There was no room for them in the inn." Instead of the weak and wordy "Reform your lives!" John the Baptist now proclaims a traditional "Repent...