Word: knell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks ago had to scuttle plans to build a nuclear reprocessing and waste-storage facility at Gorleben, near the East German border, after a Harrisburg-inspired protest by environmentalists and "citizen initiative" groups. Said Count Otto Lambsdorff, West Germany's Economics Minister: "This could be the death knell for our whole nuclear policy, including the export of nuclear plants...
...School, however, Bakke has probably sounded the death knell for the minority admissions subcommittee. Oglesby Paul's original proposal for its elimination did a bureaucratic shuffle last May into a review committee surveying the whole of admissions at the Med School. The Third World and minority students thought then that they had won at least another year for the sub-committee--assuming that the bureaucracy would creep at its usual petty pace...
...quarrel was the formidable figure of Home Minister Charan Singh, 75, whose ambition to succeed Desai as Prime Minister is surpassed only by his abiding hatred for Indira Gandhi. Though temporarily incapacitated by a heart attack, Singh warned that Desai's action against Narain had "sounded the death knell of the Janata Party." At the same time, he launched his own indirect offensive against Desai by calling for Mrs. Gandhi's immediate arrest. Scorning Desai's view that she had been punished enough by her defeat at the polls last year, Singh declared that the government...
...Corporation continues to passively support the systematic subjugation of South African blacks. The Corporation magnanimously agrees that apartheid is reprehensible, yet refuses to do what little it can to hasten its end. No one believes that divestiture, in any form, by the University would signal the economic death-knell of South Africa, but the Corporation fails to take into account the moral value any divestiture would have. In the end, the Corporation has proven once again that Harvard is more of a business than a place of education and values...
...plant will offer to the Mission Hill residents who surround the plant's site, such as the two-year construction jobs, and a housing project that it claims could not be built without the plant, some residents believe that the power plant will sound the area's death knell...