Word: plugs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cassette of Top Gun was the first film to carry a commercial plug (Diet Pepsi was the sponsor), but since then the tapes of a dozen or so other movies have hawked everything from candy bars (Moonstruck, Dirty Dancing) to Jeeps (Platoon). Though the just released cassette of Rain Man sells for no less than $89.95, its distributors, capitalizing on the vintage Buick that is featured in the film, put in an ad for -- you guessed it -- Buick. The otherwise splendid new release of The Wizard of Oz starts off with a one-minute Downy commercial...
Then at 10 a.m. the government announced that all satellite dishes operated by foreign television networks would be shut off. Viewers around the world watched in amazement as the minutes ticked by, concerned that as soon as the plug was pulled, the crackdown would begin. By noon Saturday in Beijing, all live broadcasts had ceased...
Police reported that Linares had repeatedly implored hospital officials to "pull the plug" on the infant. Last December he unplugged the ventilator, but security officers quickly reconnected...
...here to hurt anyone," said Rudolfo Linares, wielding a .357-cal. pistol. "I'll only hurt you if you try to plug my baby back in." Linares, 23, and his wife Tamara had come to the Chicago hospital in the middle of the night to visit their 15-month-old son. Since swallowing an uninflated balloon and suffocating at a birthday party last August, little Samuel had been partly brain dead, kept alive by a life-support system...
...past five years much of this mathematical logic has been incorporated into tiny, special-purpose computer chips. Graphics calculations that used to require a $250,000 bank of hardware can now be performed by a single plug-in board. In just the past year the cost of an entry-level 3-D computer has fallen by nearly 70%, to less than $16,000. Within the next five to eight years, predicts Jim Clark, chairman of Silicon Graphics, the leading manufacturer of 3-D workstations, "we'll see the kind of images Tin Toy represents on an ordinary personal computer...