Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rockefeller had kept his mouth shut, he might very well have won the nomination despite the remarriage. The Kennedy assassination and the emergence of Lyndon Johnson seemed to negate the possibilities of success for Goldwater's southern strategy. As it was, the moderates had no candidate who could present himself as a unifier, and besides, Rockefeller's initial salvo had been returned with vengeance by the Goldwater faction, culminating in a 15-minute round of boos for him at the Cow Palace...
...angrily to the ruling and, as it has in the past, threatened to close the Silver Bay plant rather than invest in waste-disposal programs that it says could result in an operating loss of $2.3 million per year. Local residents still hope that a compromise can be reached; shutting down the plant would throw 3,200 employees out of work in an area where there are few other jobs. That prospect has already cast a pall over Silver Bay (pop. 3,500); nearly every family in town has at least one member working at the Reserve plant. In fact...
Europe is likely to be on short water rations for the rest of the summer. In France, the government ordered 440 miles of the country's canal system shut down so that the water could be diverted to parched farms. Water levels in the Rhine and Danube rivers have declined so much that ships plying them can carry only half their normal loads...
...company has suspended all dividend payments and is asking 18 banks and insurance companies to work out a new credit agreement (the lenders have already waived most provisions of a $110 million long-term loan). Meanwhile, the company is in full retreat from tomorrow. It plans to shut down or sell off all of its money-losing operations. Among other things, it will stop building monotrains and magnetically propelled people-movers for shopping centers and amusement parks, turbine-powered trains for Amtrak and computer-driven cars for city subway systems...
...Jersey schoolchildren were enjoying their vacations last week, 88,000 other youngsters in summer-school programs had to change their plans. So did teachers and school administrators involved in scheduling for next fall. In an unprecedented move, the New Jersey Supreme Court at 12:01 a.m. on July 1 shut down the state's entire public school system. Reason: the state was not providing "thorough and efficient" education for all New Jersey children, as it was required to do by its constitution...