Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...schools. Economic prosperity, though far behind the white level, has reached into the black community. Atlanta has had a large black middle class for several generations. Centered on the five colleges and theological institute of Atlanta University Center, these blacks have long controlled their own economic and political life. Shut off from white financial channels, they developed alternative economic institutions?banks, insurance companies, small businesses...
Several hotels have closed or soon will do so. El Miramar and Le Petit Miramar shut down last summer. In March, the 52-year-old Condado Beach, San Juan's oldest luxury hotel, was closed with startling suddenness; guests arriving for breakfast were told by desk clerks to clear out immediately. Carrying their own luggage-the bellhops had been dismissed-the tourists tramped...
Hilton International plans to stop operating the San Jeronimo Hilton, which will close unless its new owners, a local business group, find other hotel people to run it. The Dorado Hilton is scheduled to shut in June, when Hilton International ends operations there. The Dorado Hilton's owners, International Investment Co., got a promise of a $500,000 loan from the Puerto Rican government to help refurbish the hotel; they hope to reopen it in December. In addition, the government plans to buy San Juan's exclusive but ailing Racquet Club Hotel for $4,500,000 and turn...
...weeks ago, B.U. pitcher Roger Rogdowski was looking forward to the forthcoming Harvard game with guarded optimism. "We should be able to shut them out," he said at the time, "and I could...
Yesterday at Soldier's Field Rogdowski fulfilled his prediction to shut out Harvard for one whole inning. Unfortunately, the Crimson wheeled out the guns in the second, and before the inning was over, Rogdowski was shelled for six runs and Harvard was on its way to a lopsided win, 14-5, over the Terriers...