Word: tapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...love and salvage. "I feel that what people call by the word scavenger is really a resurrection," she remarked years later. "When you do things this way, you're really bringing them to life. You know that you nursed them and you enhance them, you tap them and you hammer them, and you know you have given them an ultimate life, a spiritual life that surpasses the life they were created...
...energy philosophy of the outgoing Carter Administration and that of the new Reagan team do not vary greatly. Underlying both approaches is a desire to find and tap more domestic fuel sources. But the programs of the two administrations are likely to be very different in degree and pace. Reagan has already indicated that he will pursue the goal of increasing domestic energy production, especially of oil and gas, much more aggressively than Jimmy Carter...
...White House. Transition boss Edwin Meese and Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt piled out and proceeded to the Situation Room in the basement. They were about to make their nightly call to Ronald Reagan at his Pacific Palisades home and now they felt it necessary to use the most tap-proof telephones in the nation to discuss the most top-secret political topic in town: Who would be members of his new Cabinet...
...drill. Energy developers first began arriving in droves in 1973, when OPEC hiked its prices fourfold and jolted the nation's oil and gas companies into searching for additional supplies. Jimmy Carter gave the developers a big assist in 1979 when he announced his intention to tap the region's energy supplies by setting up an Energy Mobilization Board to speed up the building of refineries, pipelines, coal mines and synthetic fuel plants. He also proposed an Energy Security Corporation to funnel public funds for further research on developing the synthetic fuel industry. Though Congress voted down...
...dentists are tantalized by the fact that half the people in the U.S. still do not see a dentist regularly, if they go at all. To tap that great undrilled and uncapped market, the A.D.A. has run $2 million worth of print ads in national magazines and TV commercials in Buffalo, Cincinnati and Kansas City, featuring toothy models and the lines: "Dazzle. When your teeth have it, you have it. So go get some at your dentist's." The California Dental Association has supplemented "dazzle" with "doodle." Print, TV and billboards show a smiling woman or man whose front...