Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even greater problem is the hostility of residents living near sites proposed for garbage-processing plants and storage areas. CEA's plant in East Bridgewater is presently shut down for repairs of damage caused by an explosion in November. Company officials speculate that the blast could have been the work of people wanting to stop shipments of raw garbage into the neighborhood. Says New York's Vaccarello: "We have the processes to clean up waste matter, but it will take time to clean up garbage's bad image...
...fall, broadcast and ad executives nervously peeked at the figures on their desks, then shut their eyes and turned the tallies face down, as if they hoped the whole thing would go away. Like scientists who had discovered that rain also falls up, they could not believe what they were seeing. Last week, however, the two rating services, Nielsen and Arbitron, confirmed their fears: in 1977, for the first time in history, television viewing declined...
Walk down Columbia Street at night and the chances are good you will hear music with a Latin beat escaping from the windows. Winter has driven the guitar-strumming, beer-drinking knots of friends off the stoops, it's true. The windows are shut tight against a cold which seems even harsher compared to the tropical warmth of Havana and San Juan. But though forced inside by an inhospitable climate, the music will not be imprisoned. The salsa sound of Puerto Rico, or perhaps a Mexican ballad, filters faintly out to the street, signalling to the passerby that he walks...
Though the atrium is being built for use by employees in the 54,000 square feet of office space the project will create, the garden will be open to the public. Zum Zum and Chez Dreyfus have closed, and Woolworth's will shut down on January...
...that when just one picket from a struck mine appears at another mine, the workers there also must walk off the job. Even some union members have doubts about this tactic. Complains Fred Voithofer, 49, a miner in Greene County, Pa.: "Guys from out of state showed up and shut us down three times last summer. One had a gun. No way I'm going to argue with that kind of thing, but it's dead wrong. The company treats us well, and we shouldn't be penalized when some other company has trouble. We lose good...