Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decentralized system also makes flexible meal plans difficult. If such plans were offered (say, a choice of taking 10, 15, or 20 meals a week), the smaller number of students who would stay on full board would cause some dining rooms to shut down, at least for part of the week, Frank J. Weissbecker, director of Food Services, says. Or, as Norman Cleveland, director of Food Services at Brown, puts it, an optional system like Brown's would kill the House system if put into effect at Harvard...
...conservatives have made the canal something of a political issue, public support for American control has waned somewhat in the U.S. because the waterway is not so important as it used to be. Some 10% of all American exports and imports pass through the waterway; if the canal was shut down, American commerce would be hurt but not disrupted in a major way. Increasingly, traffic is diverted from the canal, whose locks are too small to accommodate the growing fleet of supertankers. Since 1973, the Panama Canal has been losing money, and its deficit in the past fiscal year...
Congress provided federal campaign funds for the 1976 presidential election -but refused to do the same for Senate and House campaigns. With the White House doors shut, special-interest groups simply poured their money through the still open gates on Capitol Hill. Common Cause reported last week that such groups showered a record $22.6 million on candidates for Congress in 1976-nearly double the amount given in 1974. Herewith the top givers and recipients in Senate and House races...
...news this week, and in some parts of the country it required extraordinary efforts on the part of our staff. When New York Correspondent Marion Knox was assigned to cover the chilly plight of snowbound Buffalo (see THE NATION), she found that trains had stopped running, all highways were shut down, and no flights were landing at the Buffalo airport. Bundled up in her heaviest ski parka, Knox caught a flight to Rochester, the nearest functioning airfield. From there she hopped a truck carrying 35,000 lbs. of frozen veal, part of a two-mile-long caravan taking emergency rations...
...yardlings eliminated the possibility of a shut-out less than a minute and a half into the second stanza as George Arnold batted one past the Merrimack netminder. Jim Dales and Charlie Maniekis notched assists on the play...