Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Probably they were precipitated by the University's determination to keep the vital functions of the University operating smoothly. But to worry about the University being closed down is to overreact; the employees, NAC, and the Strike Steering Committee announced early last week that their aim was not to shut down the University, but to use it as a base of action and a center of organization. They wanted only that employees be allowed to participate in anti-war activities without loss of pay or reprisals...
...talk to someone, or my trip would have been a waste. Marty was from Chicago. and his representatives are as despicable as New York's are good. Marty and I could lobby together. First. we went to see John Kluczynski. His office was completely shut down...
Doors will be shut in your faces, I do not doubt...
...well known to the engineers of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, a consortium of eight oil companies and their pipeline subsidiaries. Obeying strict stipulations written by the Interior Department and the U.S. Geological Survey, the engineers have ordered corrosion-resistant steel pipe and plan to provide remote-control shut-off valves along the route. In addition, they must respect the ecology of the areas the pipe crosses. However, their plans call for burying 90% of the pipeline in the permafrost, while the Geological Survey wants about 50% of it raised on stilts over the tundra. Until the differences...
...pointed up the need for a definition of the very word "strike." What it authorizes supervisors to do is to excuse workers who have strong feelings about the war and feel personal needs to miss work. What it does not condone is a strike whose purpose it is to shut down the University's vital functions...