Word: lock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...secure night access, Harvard should install a lock system in the elevators that can only be worked from the guard's desk, so that people would have to call down to the desk in order to gain access to any floor but the first. The stairway should be locked...
That's why it took Schmidt and the Phils until Wednesday--the deadline or signing free agents--to agree on a new contract for next season. The Phils didn't want to risk so much money on a player who, although a lock for the Hall of Fame, could hardly enter Cooperstown with the numbers he posted last year...
...growth. One reason is that junk bonds earn hefty fees: Drexel charges 3% to 4% of an offering's total value, compared with a fee of less than 1% for a higher-grade issue. Milken's web of buyers and sellers for the bonds has given him a virtual lock on the market, though the entry of such competitors as Morgan Stanley and First Boston has whittled Drexel's market share from a monopoly in the late 1970s to about 50% today. For his huge contribution to Drexel's bottom line, Milken has pocketed bonuses of as much...
University officials have a lock on the "smiling gamely and not worrying" award, judging by their reaction to the first set of results from last spring's major survey of undergraduate life at the College...
...geographic sweep. To his solid base in the South, he added much of the Middle West, parts of the Northeast, the Mountain States and California. Though the G.O.P. carried several large states by thin margins, Bush demonstrated that there is still considerable strength in the theory of a "Republican lock" on the Electoral College. For a generation Republican presidential candidates have enjoyed an advantage in the distribution of electoral votes, and Bush exploited that benefit...