Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strike began after the state legislature went into summer recess without voting a 310-an-hour increase for the 81,000 state employees. The strikers were particularly incensed because Ohio racked up an $80.5 million budget surplus in the past fiscal year. As the A.F.S.C.M.E. vowed that it would "shut down the State of Ohio," the strike hit prisons, mental hospitals and state-controlled liquor stores. Fearing that the strike would close the state's 290 liquor stores, many Ohioans ventured into Indiana to stock up on potables. National Guardsmen who were dispatched to the maximum-security prison...
...news in the Cambridge theater world: Sweet Eros and The Bear have shut down along with Theater Two, largely because of continuing harassment from state and local authorities combined with substantial financial difficulties. Back in the spring this enlightened Commonwealth passed new obscenity laws that made the Victorians look like Linda Lovelace in drag. The State Fuzz promised to bust the show once the new laws were passed, and because policemen always keep their word, they busted it again and again and again. The shows producers decided to try to comply with the state's puritan tastes and removed...
...stairs leading out of the cell block, Gorham encountered Deputy U.S. Marshal Joseph Sinkavitch. Shoving Gorham aside, Sinkavitch rushed back through the cell block's steel door and quickly shut it behind him, sealing in Wilkerson, Gorham, eight hostages and 15 other inmates, none of whom had taken part in the seizure. Among the hostages were four deputy marshals, a Justice Department auditor and his secretary, and two local attorneys (one of whom, John J. Hurley, had previously served as Wilkerson's lawyer). At first, the two convicts vowed that they would not release the hostages until they...
...Northwestern's Dyche Stadium in Evanston, Ill., and Minnesota Viking Defensive Tackle Alan Page was working up a heavy sweat. Page, however, was not practicing his pass rush. Dressed in a T shut stamped with the message NO FREEDOM, NO FOOTBALL, he was marching in a picket line. With ten other National Football League veterans Page had exchanged shoulder pads for placards in a successful effort to persuade the College All-Stars not to prepare for their scheduled game with the Super Bowl champion Miami Dolphins later this month...
...research and development of alternate sources of energy and agree to guarantee profitable prices to people who produce, say, oil from shale or tar sands; 2) work out a common program to build six-month stockpiles of oil and share imports among themselves if the exporters again curtail or shut off supplies; 3) agree that they will not try to get the cash to pay for oil by unduly pushing exports to and curtailing imports from each other; 4) especially important, develop coordinated programs to conserve energy. If the world continues to increase energy consumption by 5.6% a year...