Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impact of the strike was widespread. For want of materials, many factories closed or reduced their work hours, including plants owned by Chrysler in Belvidere, Ill., American Motors in Kenosha, Wis., and General Electric in Louisville. Unable to get carcasses, meat-packing plants from Colorado to Illinois shut down, further reducing supplies and setting the scene for additional retail-price hikes. In West Virginia, five coal mines were closed for lack of fuel. Fearful drivers for oil companies refused to take their trucks out, and service stations in many cities closed...
...headquarters of some independent organizations, newspaper reports of plant closings and other disruptions were eagerly read aloud. Said George Rynn, vice president of the Council of Independent Truckers in Barberton, Ohio: "It's amazing how easily you can shut down this country...
...this year's campaign for a new calendar seems to be the energy crisis--something that nobody was worrying about when the Faculty remanded the issue last year. With a first semester that ended before Christmas, Harvard could shut down for the entire month of January if there were another energy squeeze; it's bound to be a persuasive argument...
Princeton will be the third Ivy League opponent Harvard has faced this year. The team has already beaten Dartmouth 7-2 and shut out Cornell, both much weaker than Princeton...
...THIRD term, Garrison did little work on the conspiracy investigation and was in fact out of the limelight for a couple of years--until last summer, when he went on trial for bribery. The federal attorneys seemed to have an open-and-shut case against Garrison, because they had tape recordings of him accepting bribes. But they had underestimated their quarry. Midway through the trial, Garrison--who would sit in court all day reading The Best and the Brightest and underlining his favorite passages--fired his lawyers and took over his own defense. He completely bowled over the jury...