Word: closedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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To write their reports, the correspondents returned on Thursday to the officially closed, eerily deserted Time-Life Building, where a skeleton staff was working without air conditioning or normal lighting. An emergency generator installed after the '65 blackout was used to run one elevator and the telex machines. Among...
On Utica Avenue in Brooklyn, Ernie Blye, a black man, stayed at his tailor shop all night long, grasping a gun, his German shepherd at his heels. A gang of men began to menace him. He cried out: "If you shoot me, my dog will get you!" They closed in...
This perception was strengthened by the refusal of postal workers to process mail from Grunwick to its film-service customers. After ignoring pleas from postal union officials to stop their illegal blockade, 100 workers were suspended without pay. They showed up at the local sorting office anyway, delivering mail to...
The overcrowding has troubled both the universities and the cities that house them. Student violence closed Rome University for eight weeks during the past academic year. Some unemployed university graduates-who account for about 350,000 of Italy's 1 million youthful unemployed-have joined in the terrorism of...
Adams estimated that the devices will save 9,000 lives each year because drivers cannot avoid using them (some 80% of drivers and passengers do not buckle their lap and shoulder belts now). Air bags do not require a motorist to do anything; they inflate instantly upon the impact of...