Word: closed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paper profitable, but only under a condition: the paper's eleven unions had to replace their unexpired contracts with new five-year agreements allowing management greater flexibility and to take cost-saving measures. If the new contracts were not signed by midnight Dec. 31, the paper would close down permanently...
...convince a jury that other factors were involved. As a result, bosses are planning to keep a closer watch on their older workers. Paradoxically, they may warn, demote or even talk into early retirement a 63-year-old, say, who is slipping. In the past, an employer could close his eyes to that worker's failing performance in the knowledge that the worker would be gone in two years anyway. Now, says Frank D. Sweeten, vice president of Sperry Rand, "that two years becomes seven years, and we have to take a harder look at performance." Some employers would...
Just how a new version of an old, if farsighted, television series will be treated at the box office next Christmas is also a puzzling question. Despite the immense success of Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, science-fiction movies are often a fragile film commodity whose only sure audiences are cult enthusiasts. To make a profit, Star Trek must reach out far beyond them. Monsters aside, that may be the most difficult enterprise confronting the creators of the starship Enterprise...
...pace of the meet was set when Northeastern's cross country All-American, Bruce Bickford, ran a 4:03.89 mile to nose out Harvard's John Murphy and confirm coach Bill McCurdy's lament that "the close ones weren't going our way." On the brighter side of the race, Murphy, just coming off a bout with tendonitis, notched a personal best at 4:04 flat...
...Harvard hockey team was laid to rest Saturday night in a simple ceremony at Walter Brown Funeral Home. About 200 or so close friends and relatives braved the weather to attend the service. Death was said to be premature, and brought on by the 3-2 loss against St. Lawrence, which preceded the last rites...