Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ITHACA, N.Y.--Cornell University administrators have cancelled Thanksgiving vacation because of a boiler breakdown that caused a four-day cancellation of classes last week...
Provost W. Keith Kennedy said last week that classes would meet through Thanksgiving to make up for class time lost when a heating plant breakdown last Friday forced the closure of all Cornell offices, classrooms, and dormitories...
Robert M. Matyas, the Cornell official responsible for facilities, said the coal boiler passed a periodic inspection prior to the breakdown. Heating plant managers and employees were not at fault, he added...
...Earl's former girlfriend--she is the only one who deals with Mr. White. Jake is a mass of muscle and simplicity, the common man who finds himself lost in the midst of this weirdness. Laurie works at the A.T.C.--American Trust Company--and the play is about the breakdown of trust among the three, but particularly between Earl and Laurie...
...powers of incumbency were sorely strained by the surprising Reagan-slide, the Abscam bribery scandal and the harrowing problems of inflation. The Democrats, nevertheless, hung on to control. Although at least 26 incumbent Democrats were defeated, and the Republicans had a net gain of 32 seats, the final breakdown of the 97th Congress will be about 245 Democrats and 190 Republicans...