A taxidriver offered to drive his cab around the world, plugging the Fair, but no money is available for this.
The rest of the sports world plugs on, with the biggest news coming out of Australia in the form of No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki losing in the quarterfinals.
Who needs a marketing department when the leader of the free world plugs your company -- gratis, no less -- in a prime-time, nationally televised address?
Her brushwork creates forests of hairy leaves, alive as monkeys, a fertile, ancient, earthen and rooted world plugged into subterranean energy.
His personal Web site lists more than 100 titles, ranging from 1960s primers on teleprocessing and designing and programming systems, to works of informed soothsaying, like "The Wired Society: A Challenge for Tomorrow," (1978), which foresaw a world plugged into a computer network.
"Worlds plugging in to the browser are becoming the de facto interaction for real-time communication on the Web".
William Gibson in Neuromancer (1984) coined the word cyberspace to describe a computer-mediated virtual world into which humans plugged their brains.
"Using aid money set aside to help women and children in the most desperate of situations in the poorest nations of the world to plug defence black holes is something that the chancellor should be truly ashamed of," said Farron, adding that compassionate conservatism was "well and truly dead".
After the deluge of 9/11 we have two choices: We can numb ourselves to the world, and plug our ears, or we can try to repair that jagged hole in the wall of civilization by insisting, more firmly and loudly than ever, on rules and norms -- both for ourselves and for others.
Working out helps me disconnect from the world and "plug in" to my needs.
