Word: closedown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...particularly in the Northeast, students demonstrated against the bombing with varying degrees of fervor. At Harvard, 150 demonstrators once more ransacked the Center for International Affairs, after a march from downtown Boston. After a bitter meeting of the university senate, Columbia joined 100 other colleges in a one-day closedown last week. At the University of Maryland, Governor Marvin Mandel called out the National Guard to enforce a curfew after students repeatedly blocked U.S. 1. Last weekend in New York, 50,000 marchers?some from as far away as Nebraska?demonstrated in the rain against the bombing. Much...
...Management Ltd. and its USIF,* Real Estate. Swamped by the equivalent of a run on the bank, the directors of the Nassau-based USIF "temporarily" suspended sales and redemptions, thus freezing the assets of 23,000 European, Latin American and Asian investors who had put up $276 million. The closedown leaves the future of the fund in considerable doubt; to some degree, it also tarnishes the more than 350 other funds that operate in similar fashion from foreign tax havens beyond the regulatory reach of countries where they seek investors...