Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gaudet's acrobatics, which shut off the comeback bid of the resurging B.U. attack in the last six minutes of the game, proved to be the stellar performance in the contest...
...Elis, shut out of post-season play for a decade, found out that play-off competition is not so easy as their usual late-season battle for the Division One cellar. Freshman center Dan McPherson tossed in four goals and senior right winger Bruce Crowder added three more as UNH yawned past Yale, 9-2, at Snively Arena in Durham, N.H. It was the first time either McPherson or Crowder had scored more than twice in one game. Strangely enough, last night's contest was tied, 1-1, after the first period, but five unanswered UNH goals in the second...
Economically, the regime's top priority was the resumption of Iran's oil exports, which have been shut off for two months. Although this has posed problems for the industrial countries that consume Iranian oil, for Iran itself the shutdown has been an economic disaster. Conceding that the state of his country's finances made him "shudder," Bazargan warned last week that "if our oil is not exported, we will have no money, and the revolution will be wiped out on the spot...
Iran started turning off its oil spigots last October and completely shut down exports on Dec. 26, but the resulting shortage in world crude supplies has not yet significantly hit oil-thirsty consumers. The crunch of '79, however, will soon become real enough to hurt. The last tankers loaded with Iranian crude have completed their monthlong, 11,000-mile voyage to America's East Coast ports and more and more large U.S. oil companies are cautiously beginning to husband their stockpiles to prepare for a long energy siege...
...Michael Cohrs '79, one of the show's producers, said yesterday he could think of no motive or particular reason for the threat. "It was just a prank--someone wanted to shut down the party we were having." Cohrs said...