Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Printers at the Richmond papers have been on strike since March, and a Newspaper Guild strike has shut down the Evening News in Newark since May. Donnahoe is determined not to give in to union demands. He has written several editorials praising nonstriking employees in Richmond for their "heroic publishing effort," and attacking "the overwhelming power of organized labor in this country" and "union tyranny." He kept the papers going by teaching other employees to set type. In the early days of the Richmond strike, he even pressed his wife into service as a tape puncher, and Chairman Bryan pitched...
...particularly boys' and girls' boarding schools. The major military boarding schools, however, have lost enrollment for four years running. Last year's drop at 17 major institutions was nearly 11%-more than three times the decline at other boarding schools for boys. Four military academies have shut down within the past three years; eleven have dropped their associations with the military life...
...currencies by allowing the factors of supply and demand to dictate its value overseas. His aim was to force the U.S.'s major trading partners, especially Japan and the Common Market countries, to increase the value of their currencies-and thus the cost of their exports. Once Nixon shut the gold window, the dollar was expected to drop, and the value of foreign currencies to go up. The money exchanges of the world had been effectively closed since the Nixon announcement; until they reopened last week, no one knew for sure how much the dollar would fall or other...
Maximum Damage. Moderate Catholic leaders had earlier proclaimed a campaign of civil disobedience, and throughout Ulster, Catholics began to withhold their payments of rent and property taxes. A one-day strike virtually shut down the business district of the predominantly Catholic city of Londonderry. When 1,300 British troops attempted to dismantle the recently rebuilt Derry barricades, which since 1969 have symbolized the Catholics' determination to defend themselves, residents responded with rioting and random rifle fire. Two moderate M.P.s, trying to restore order, were arrested for "failing to move on the command of a member of Her Majesty...
...pointless to worry about whether Suez is a shapely and coherent play. It isn't. Useless characters clutter the stage, scenes balloon or shrink out of proportion, and at the final curtain the plot snaps shut arbitrarily as native soldiers run onstage shooting. Osborne's anger still glints and cuts, but it cannot draw blood from such straw men as critics, in-laws and American tourists...