Word: locked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republicans oppose a ban on abortions. Opposition among Independents and Democrats who vote Republican is even stronger. Moreover, 78 percent of college-educated voters and 68 percent of Westerners oppose a ban. These are not groups that Republicans can afford to lose, especially since the GOP's electoral lock on the West gives it the presidency...
...personal appeal not to slap away the hand he offered them at his Inauguration. Yet the Administration seemed to know that Tower was a lost cause. By Thursday, when the Senate began its rancorous debate on the nomination, the President's advisers admitted they had failed to lock up a single Democratic vote. On Capitol Hill the Bush team's lobbying effort was being called "nonexistent...
...cargo door and part of the skin tore away from a 19-year-old Boeing 747 shortly after it left Hawaii, sucking nine passengers from the plane. Investigators have not yet officially determined the cause of the failure, but they have focused on the possibility of a faulty door lock...
...recent years, however, the military's lock on that market has been challenged by groups as diverse as the Red Cross, Viet Nam veterans, CARE and the Quakers. These so-called peace recruiters now turn up regularly in school classrooms and at job fairs and career days across the country. Some seek to interest students in working for such organizations as the Peace Corps and VISTA, or help them find nonmilitary assistance for college. Others try to show those intent on military careers exactly what they are getting into. Many do all three. Says Lou Ann Merkle of the Central...
...University must go even farther, though, than this initial plan to lock the doors and check identification. It seems that Harvard is looking for the easy way out of a problem which must be addressed. The stairways and elevators in the Science Center should be more carefully monitored, and even locked, so that "a person with an unauthorized purpose" does not have access to the quiet upper floors where people often study or work alone...