Word: plugs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just love sports," Martin said. "I just get excited playing [them]. In high school, people always used to call me the spark plug...
...redeeming--well, partially redeeming--aspect. Demonstrating that the aging process need not commence until well past 45. Jane cavorts at various times across the screen in a two-piece bathing suit or a skimpy pair of short. I would not be surprised if that were a plug for her Latest venture into the literary world June Fonda's Workout Book. All those years of campaigning for Tom Hayden and making set-fi poem films for Roger Vadim have not taken their toll on Jane. It is a good plug...
...crackdown may stem, at least for a while, some disclosures that the Administration finds embarrassing or ill timed. But it is unlikely to plug the major leaks. Officials in the Reagan Administration, like those in power before them, use leaks to serve their own political and personal purposes. Many disclosures spring from upper-level officials who feel they can advance the Administration's interest by discreetly floating ideas as trial balloons or by publicizing policy plans. As the old Washington saying goes, the ship of state is unique-it leaks from...
...view here, meticulously opinionated and scrupulously unscientific, is that the home game systems and the cartridges that plug into them range from fairly good to fairly disappointing. None is within a light-year of the best arcade games in color, sound or action. Manufacturers seem to be aware of these shortcomings; add-on voice simulators and cartridges to work them are on the way, and Atari promises a $349 unit that will give its console powerful additional circuitry...
...economic and a political basket case." Yet at the same time, the banks would lose billions of dollars if Poland is forced to renounce its debts. The main victims of a default caused by the banks would be the banks. Said one European financier: "If you pull the plug on Poland, you pull it on yourself...