Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to a new plan drawn up by Britain's Department of Health and Social Security, all of the nation's 116 mental hospitals-many of them grim Victorian fortresses-will be shut down over the course of the next 25 to 30 years. As for the 116,000 patients, they will be temporarily maintained in small psychiatric units in local general hospitals, then rehabilitated through outpatient care, either at home or in clinics. Teams of doctors, nurses, therapists and social workers will be set up in each town to smooth the integration of former mental patients into...
...late middle years. At his death he was estimated to be worth $5 million to $6 million. His father had left him about $2.5 million in cash and in trust, and he later got an undisclosed settlement from the foundation's management, from which he was shut out. Dividends from investments in solid securities also added to his fortune, which was amply sufficient for his extravagances. He drove about in a custom-built gold and black car, designed to look like a London taxi and powered by a Rolls-Royce engine. Cracked Gulbenkian: "I like to travel...
...Crimson's ace penalty killers, Dave Cavanagh and Jay Riley, shut out the Larries in four short-handed situations, and on the last one Riley had two near goals...
While the students milled about, a professor named H. Bruce Franklin harangued them on their duties: "So now what we're asking is for people to make that tiny little gesture to ... shut down the most obvious machinery of war, such as that Computation Center...
...shattering succession, as Anderson raced on unmolested for the score. Says Shula, still lost in the wonder of it all: "It was one of the great plays of all time, a classic." The 21-0 Miami victory marked the first time in 97 games that the Colts had been shut...