Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President had little choice. For the third straight year, the U.S. faces a fuel and energy shortage. This, combined with heavy overloads on power systems at peak periods of use, may well dim lights and shut down air conditioners on sweltering days this summer. State restrictions on domestic output, which accounts for about three-fourths of the 12 million bbl. of oil that the nation needs each day, have been loosened; Texas wells are now allowed to produce at 100% of theoretical capacity. But the U.S. industry has been unable to meet demand, and even some oilmen have been asking...
...increase in quotas, however, was a victory for consumers, who presumably will be spared the price boosts that a shortage would cause. Nixon knew that such boosts would damage his anti-inflation campaign. Still, the quota increase underscores the growing U.S. dependence on overseas oil supplies that could be shut off by wars or political blackmail...
...since returning from the Riverside Tournament out in California, and it comes into Sunday's game with a five-game winning streak. After losing three of four league games early in May, Cornell appeared to be out of the EIBL race, but last weekend the Big Red shut out Columbia and then swept two doubleheaders from Princeton and Penn, winning all four games...
Harvard's rugby team fared poorly at the National College Championships in Lexington. Va. last weekend. The Crimson dropped an 18-13 decision to Georgia in the first round, and was subsequently shut out by Kentucky, 9-0, in the consolation game...
Land admitted that the camera's size - about 1¼in. thick and 4½in. by 7-in. in area when folded shut-is somewhat larger than he had originally planned, and thus raises "the question of just which pocket it will fit." (Answer: the breast pocket of a man's suit, snugly.) A major innovation in the still-unnamed camera is the single-lens-reflex viewing system that allows a picture taker to see precisely the same image that eventually appears on film. Except for conventional focusing, the entire process is controlled automatically by a tiny...