Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...between two irreconcilable forces. On one side was Congress, which is not inclined to go to New York's rescue unless city officials dramatically demonstrate that they have stopped their high-spending ways. On the other side were the powerful city unions, some of which have threatened to shut down New York with a general strike if officials cut the budget too deeply. The squeeze pushed the city closer than ever before to a default that would shake money markets in the nation and world and left the city's leaders exhausted and dispirited. Pleading for help from...
...more than 7% of the work force is unemployed. Moreover, Canada has been plagued by more work stoppages than any major industrialized country except strike-happy Italy, and experts lately have worried that without controls the situation could grow worse. The postal workers, for example, last week threatened to shut down mail service for the seventh time in two years unless Canada Post gives in to their demand for a 71% pay and benefits hike. Large U.S. corporations with subsidiaries in Canada, such as American Can Co., have warned that new plants may be built in the U.S. instead...
...made personal appeals to Star Publisher Joe L. Allbritton to stand together against the unions. (In its own city, the Times announced that it would close in sympathy if its prime competitor, the News, is hit this week by a strike of deliverers, and the News said it would shut down if Times' deliverers struck first...
...place can say that federal money isn't life or death for it--not even this one, "Daly said. "We're at the public trough, though at a much less intense degree than others. But shut off that trough and we'd be goddamn hungry...
September 27 was the big day, the day the Sox clinched first place in their division, and the day that the top drawer in many a bureau was cemented shut. And that was some three and a half weeks ago. Come on, people, give us a break. Our nasal passages are in serious danger of extinction...