Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...troubles began in 1964, shortly after completing the Green Center for the Earth Sciences at MIT. The $5-million project worked fine, until students tried to get inside. Air pressure from wind whipping around the bottom floor of the building sealed the doors shut, and they had to be replaced with revolving doors at a cost of $60,000. Ann Landreth, public relations representative for Pei and Partners, explains that the building design was a common one, but that this wind-tunnel phenomenon "had never happened before...
CIVIL LIBERTIES. I am proud that for the first time in 40 years we have no concentration camps. Since 1971 they have been shut down forever. Even during the October war we had no concentration camps...
...national level, have tended to remake the issues surrounding black admissions into higher education. Whereas it was once thought that the way to rectify past injustices was to open the doors of opportunity, to admit and to graduate more black students, we now see these doors being shut, and in a myriad of different ways. Substantial decreases in scholarship aid, inadequate or completely curtailed recruitment programs, and more recently the questions of non-uniform admissions criteria (such as those alleged in the DeFunis case) have begun across the nation to affect black enrollment at the undergraduate and graduate level...
...allow the rest of the hearings, which are expected to last about six weeks, to be televised. In addition, the committee granted Lawyer St. Clair the right to question and call witnesses. Mindful of his reputation as a brilliant courtroom tactician, the committee also granted Rodino stringent powers to shut off St. Clair if necessary to stop him from obstructing the proceedings or filibustering...
...stress the importance of sexual options and of not cutting themselves off from half of the population. Others admit to problems. They say that friends of both sexes shy away from them, fearful of being propositioned. Those bisexuals who turn to the homosexual community for support often find themselves shut out there too. Sociologists Philip Blumstein and Pepper Schwartz at the University of Washington in Seattle have made a study of 150 men and women who claim to be bisexuals. Says Blumstein: "Bisexual men are frequently seen as holding themselves up as better than homosexuals. Most homosexual men tend...