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13 Aug 2012, 7:23 am by Jim Gardner
    Given that teaching is very much a kind of performance, I often think about what we can learn from another population of professionals who perform multiple shows each week in season to sometimes finicky audiences that have just plunked down a wad of cash – actors. [read post]
Broward County leaders are pressing ahead with lesser penalties for marijuana possession, plunking down $175,000 to launch a civil citation program and hire a coordinator who will steer it. [read post]
25 May 2021, 5:52 pm by Stacie Rosenzweig
I learned quickly that there is a difference between actually redacting something and just plunking a black box over something you don’t want other people to see. [read post]
20 Apr 2007, 3:07 pm
I liked it -- though before you plunk down $8 a ticket on my recommendation, you should know that my taste in movies runs toward "testosterone driven" rather than "artistically inspired. [read post]
22 Jan 2016, 6:45 am by Patrick A. Malone
It may have sounded so simple, nice, and sweet to plunk grandma and grandpa in front of a computer screen to let them run a program to play games touted to help them prevent the cognitive ravages of age. [read post]
29 Jun 2007, 6:00 pm
The first people to plunk down upwards of $500 for a iPhone had been waiting in line for days. [read post]
9 Jan 2008, 11:48 am
They may need your advice, but they won't plunk down the cash unless they want to. [read post]
14 Feb 2009, 8:56 am
Investo poses the case of an investor who plunks down $100 (million), with a commitment to pay 20 percent of the gross to the manager (we'll skip management fees, heh heh). [read post]
31 Oct 2007, 3:49 pm
That will make it easier for consumers to identify wrecked cars that have been rebuilt, flooded cars that have been resold, and car dealers who ply such dangerous "bargains" to sometimes-naive consumers willing to plunk down their hard earned money because they trust people to tell them the truth.Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. [read post]
15 May 2012, 5:44 am
We're back in Portlandia from an East Coast swing, and on the six-hour return flight last evening, we gave in to the temptation to plunk down eight bucks and watch TV on a screen on the back of the seat in front of us. [read post]
18 Aug 2010, 10:22 pm by Money Maven
That would explain why I recently plunked down $100 on insurance for my new cell phone. [read post]
29 May 2021, 1:10 pm
When people leave multimillion-dollar houses in, say, Los Angeles to plunk down $1 million on a house [in Texas or Idaho] that was worth $500,000 a year ago, they turn a merely frenzied housing market into a once-in-history, hair-on-fire, what-the-hell-is-happening bonanza. [read post]
6 Jun 2013, 7:35 am by Shaunna Mireau
Our low tech system for circulating library material is based on a sign out card in a pocket attached to the back cover which borrowers remove and plunk in an assigned spot labeled with their initials. [read post]
22 Aug 2014, 4:00 am by Simon Fodden
It’s just not possible at the moment for you to hop on a plane and plunk yourself down in the city of lights? [read post]
19 Sep 2011, 4:00 am by Brian Tamanaha
But when they plunk down $150,000 or more in tuition and living expenses for a degree, they do so with the reasonable assumption that they will obtain jobs as lawyers when they get out. [read post]
27 Jun 2016, 4:27 am by Associates and Bruce L. Scheiner
It was December when the 20-year-old young man from Tallahassee had just plunked down a down payment for his first motorcycle. [read post]
3 Oct 2009, 12:35 pm by Phil Cameron
By JOHN ANTCZAK and ALICIA CHANG, Associated Press WritersLOS ANGELES – When a private spaceship soared over California to claim a $10 million prize, daredevil venture capitalist Alan Walton was 68 and thought he'd soon be on a rocket ride of his own.Walton plunked down $200,000 to be among the first space tourists to make a suborbital thrill-ride high above the Earth aboard a Virgin Galactic spaceship.Now he intends to ask for his deposit back if there's no fixed launch… [read post]
27 Jun 2016, 4:27 am by Associates and Bruce L. Scheiner
It was December when the 20-year-old young man from Tallahassee had just plunked down a down payment for his first motorcycle. [read post]
1 Oct 2012, 12:20 am by mrlibrarian
  I checked things out as much as I could because that's what people do (or should do) before plunking down cash for stuff. [read post]