Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Something Happened is so much different in terms of emotions and viewpoint than Catch-22. The choice of style I think is very much different from the style used in Catch-22...and another thing, I certainly didn't want it to read like Catch-22... Now you shut the machine off if you're not going to ask me any questions. Otherwise the tape keeps going...
...Popular Front government of Communists and Socialists stood for economic equality. Now French popular government means either Gaullists or centrists who celebrate the French past rather than work to spread the wealth more equitably among Frenchmen. Britain is no longer the country where a nationwide strike in 1926 shut industry down for months in a move to force employers to grant workers a more equitable share of the nation's wealth. Today's Labour leaders are matched only by the heads of the Conservative Party in calls for unity between labor and management...
Following the Tufts score, however, the Harvard defense tightened, and shut out the Jumbos for the remainder of the contest...
...study it." Scott drew a similar response from a state official empowered to enforce industrial health standards in Michigan. "A lot of these things aren't life and death deals," he told her. "This thing's been going on 100 years. Who are we to shut them down in one hour?" Yet in the asbestos industry alone, 200,000 workers are employed and another 800,000 have been. Among that million workers, a new official of HEW's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health estimates that there will be 3,000 excess deaths each year...
...effort to be more specific about U.S. expenditures for covert activities in Chile, Ford claimed that Allende had taken steps to muzzle opposition parties and press, although it was already known that the single incident which the administration could cite was the case of the newspaper, "El Mercurio," shut down for one day and then reopened by court order...